Charging leisure battery

[NeilE]

We have a motor mover on the way, so I'm hoping I can charge our 110A battery with our trickle charger and it will revive enough to perform well, having been neglected over the last 5 months.
Is it safe to do this in our consevatory, which is not used / accessed at this time of year.
Thanks, Neil

 

[Martin24]

so long as no ignition sources and well ventilated then should be fine. Just don't neglect it again!

 

[Woody3]

Trickle charging may not 'bring it back' as the current may be less than the battery looses naturally.
Look at the Aldi and Lidl web sites (www.aldi.co.uk and www.lidl.co.uk) for when they offer their small battery charger - last time it was £12.99. It is a controlled unit that will lift a dead battery to a useable point charging at 800mA, then go up to 3.8A until the battery is near fully charged, and then sink back to 800mA to keep it topped up.
If you are only trickle charging a battery it is unlikely to gas. For gas to be emitted it needs to be charged at over 2.3V per cell which a trickle charger will not do. Most modern batteries are sealed self-recombining anyway.
For the record most systems charge a battery at constant voltage, but if you want to get the capacity right up it needs to be charged at constant (low) current for a long time.

 

[SirRogerFFS]

Give your battery a good kick start with something Like and an 11 amp Charger, on our first caravan thats all I ever used until the Aldi charger came along. My first battery did 8 years 75amph It wont do your battery any harm .Our 110amp had dropped so low that THe Aldi charger wouldnt pick it up so a boost for a couple of hours on 11 amps and over tothe Aldi charger
I hope this helps
Sir Roger