Another Glitch

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Nov 22, 2008
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Endeavour 32 Portland, Maine
Maine Sail's been warning people about Schumacher chargers for a while now and unable to get Schumacher to recognize that they have a problem. We thought mine (put in the boat when I got it in 2005) might be OK since it was an older and higher end model.

I just hooked up to AC to the charger and some other systems with my brand new half boat buck's worth of new AGM batteries right off a freshening charge at the store. Thanks to my new battery monitor, I could see the voltage climb right up to an AGM cooking 15+ volts and stay there.

Getting the &^%#^* out of the boat was one of the most physically brutal things I've ever done on the boat thanks to the location I mounted it in six years ago when I was still a young man. Now, I've got to buy another one and figure out a place to put it.

Let me shout it from my rooftop: SCHUMACHER BATTERY CHARGERS WILL EAT YOUR BATTERIES! They have no place on a boat.
 
Nov 6, 2006
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Hunter 34 Mandeville Louisiana
Good that ya recognized the problem it before it fried those AGM's.. I had kept the old charger that P.O.installed for a while.. even resorting to putting it on a timer so that it only ran for an hour or so every day.. then realized that it was a kluge job and bit the bullet for a new Xantrex.. I have been happy with that decisiion.. Too bad that ya had to mess with it..
 
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