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Old 12-18-2012, 08:30 PM   #21
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OK I found it on the Amazon site.

Here Amazon.com: BatteryMINDer Model 12117: 12 Volt 1.33 Amp (12V 1.33A) Charger/Maintainer/Desulfator: Automotive

I would not trust the Amazon site and go by the Manufactures site. That is a miss print on the Amazon site.

The Northern Tool site I linked with them on sale has the correct info that aligns with the VDC Electronics site. I wonder if Amazon realizes they have incorrect info.
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The water is all up (I did check that), but the hydrometer wasn't liking it that much.
Congrats! You da man.
Of all the ways to test a battery's static condition, a hydrometer is best. 1.265 = 100% charge (12.7V) down to 1.155 = 25% charge (12V). This info is widely known, but I am amazed at the number of folks who own expensive batteries but haven't spent $15 for a good hydrometer.
And by good, I mean the glass tube with the float inside you get at the NAPA store. (Forget those cheap things with the disc.) You must be able to accurately read down to the hundreth. As a mechanic, I ignored the decimal and treated the measurement as a whole number.
What a lot of folks don't know is if the reading between two cells varies by 50 or more, the battery is kaput. If a cell reads 1.260 and its neighbor reads 1.210, the battery is no good regardless of the fact that a voltmeter will show the voltage to be 12.5V.

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I would not trust the Amazon site and go by the Manufactures site. That is a miss print on the Amazon site.
We had problems before with misprinted info on Amazon ads. A converter ad had the wrong dimensions listed and we didn't check the manufacturer's site and ended up buying a converter that didn't fit and having to return it. Lesson learned by newbies: Check the manufacturer's site! We read the batteryMINDer manual after it arrived and also noticed that there is apparently no prohibition on charging multiple deep cycle batteries with it. So, it must be a misprint on Amazon's part.

Thanks for the link to the batteryMINDer manual. We have been downloading manuals for our 2363 to files on our laptop. We also keep the hard copy manuals in the original Sunline notebook in the camper so I guess we're "doubling up" but we like the convenience of having them on the computer too.
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