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Originally Posted by phattyduck
Its a "any manufacturer that cares about batteries" thing. Battery chemistry changes with temperature, and requires a lower voltage for correct charging (instead of overcharging) with higher temperatures.
Be glad we don't have even more modern alternator systems that turn off completely under 'low load' situations.
-Charlie
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Yup. Lead acid are fully charged below 12.6 Volts and the range for engine running is 13.7 to 14.7. Anything higher then 14.7 volts are a fully charged battery is actually cooking the cells.
The bummer is that 12.4 is when a car battery is dead. Below that you are sulfating off your conductive plates. so 12v is not a good reading at all.
When it gets cold in the winter. I sometimes hook a 2 amp charge over night on the vehicles I am driving. That way if they were down a little the charge will bring them back up to full state.
People do not fully understand that the alternators on most modern cars are only for maintaining a charge. If you accidentally drain one down. You really should charge up up for 12 or 24 hours a a low amp charge. :-)
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