Charging Instructions Lead-Acid & Lithium Batteries - SXT 1000 TURBO Benutzerhandbuch

5. Charging Instructions Lead-acid & Lithium
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Batteries
The care and maintenance of the batteries is a crucial criterion for your batteries lifetime. Improper maintenance,
care and charging behavior can greatly reduce this, to irreparable damage and premature catastrophic failure of
the batteries.
Charging instructions lead-acid batteries
The care and maintenance of the batteries is a crucial criterion for your batteries lifetime. Improper maintenance, care and
charging behavior can greatly reduce this, to irreparable damage and premature catastrophic failure of the batteries. Lead-
acid batteries should never be deeply discharged, but always be operated under the highest possible voltage. Deep-dischar-
ged batteries, for example, by total „run empty" or by long storage, without charging (eg over winter period) can force lead
batteries getting sulfated and damage the cells. This process is irreversible in many cases resulting in total loss of the battery.
Do not think you „waste" many charge cycles by recharging the lead-acid battery more often although this is not „emptied „
completely - this is totally wrong! For the specified life by charging cycles, so-called full cycles are meant. This means that if your
battery is low 50% and then fully recharged, this equates to a half charging cycle. Twice recharge accordingly means
full cycle then.
We therefore recommend recharging the battery from a discharge of 25%. But then always until the charger completely finis-
hed loading. This guarantees reaching a maximum allowable voltage of the cells.
During the winter or long-term storage of vehicles with lead-acid batteries, it is imperative charging at least once a month until
charging is complete.
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