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| | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | I put a charge on my Battery and the needle on the charger keeps jumping up and down?? From charged to dead. WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN...HA HA HA always something with this truck.M/G
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| | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,624 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,624 | From 'charged to dead', do you mean the charger ampmeter to going from zero current to pegged? If so, how often is it happening...say once every five seconds? Is the battery out of the truck?
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | Exactly..every 5 seconds..the battery is in the truck
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | Mike G.
Are your battery cables still connected? I'll bet they are. Try unhooking the cables and see if the problem stops. If the cycling is a internal overload in the charger that is tripping, the culprit could be the charger itself, a shorted cell or plate in the battery or a short in the charging system.
Your rig has had some generator issues, so there might be more to this than it appears. Is there any funny clicking sound coming from your voltage regulator that coincides with the tripping of the battery charger?
Stuart | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | My cables are still hooked up.And I did not notice any clicking sound. Let me unhook the Battery cables and go from there. Your wrght,,I have had some Gen probs. too. Thanks..
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | Thats odd...went back out ..put the charge back on to listen for a clicking sound while it was jumping..and it would not jump..(from charged to dead...but i have a feeling there is something not correct here.HMMMMM..
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | ok...went back out and the charger was jumping again, I disconnected the cables and it stopped...will re-chaeck it in a while
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | Its still jumping, cables disconected..??? New Battery time?
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | Stuart...Its the charger...I put a charge on my work van, and it did the same thing. Jumped up and down every 5 sec. or so...
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