Charging a lead acid battery with a NiMH charger?

[Don Cohn]

Can you use a NiCad or NiMH charger to charge a small sealed lead acid battery? If so, how would you configure the charger?

Don

[BrianChan]

Nope, Nicad and Nimh use a constant current charger and lead acid requires a constant voltage charger.

Brian

[Don Cohn]

Dang... Thanks Brian!

Don

[d]

Tritons have a lead-acid setting, by the way. At least my old one does.


Dave

[BrianChan]

Also there are two major class of lead acid battery, one is liquid acid and the other is gel type. The gel type requires a lower maximum charge rate than the liquid type.

Brian