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Originally Posted by HiLife
Trickle charge over days is the way to go. As 4 hour high amp chargers heat up the battery too much. Heat are the arch enemy of batteries. I got a 1.25 amp trickle charger that brought my batteries back to life. It was time for a new batt on situations where my trickle couldn't charge the batt. Question is how long has it sat with a low charge/dead.
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After the last time I ran the NEW battery down, I had a Mexican auto supply place re-charge it. I gave specific instructions for them to do a very long slow trickle charge. In Mexico they call that a "drip charge". I was disappointed that I got a text message from them 2 hours later, telling me that my battery was ready.
Even though he showed me that the battery was now reading 12.1 volts, (immediately when he disconnected it from the charging machine), it could only start the truck 3 times before it was dead again.
It has now been 2 days since I tested it at zero volts.
Maybe I managed to kill my new battery ? Still under warranty, so tomorrow I'll see if they will give me another battery. However, this is Mexico so I'm not holding my breath.