I went out to move my 2002 gem today and nothing was on. I installed the ride for fun charger 2 years ago. No power indicated anywhere. After unplugging and replugging, the ride4 fun charger lit up with “0” and the led flashing red and green. The 4 year old deca gels are at .52,.19,2.56,.24,1.13 an…
Is there a question here somewhere?
Possibly this is just a status report?
I have one-
How long has this been since you last used your car?
If I was tasked to guess, A: it has been a while.
A couple weeks?
Maybe a month?
Longer?
Carnac says you probably left the Main Disconnect Switch ON,
This works for some people. Up until there is some sort of charging error and the charger shuts down.
With the MDS->ON, the converter remains active and the controller remains in stand-by. These things slowly consume power. Over time, it kills your PackV.
Carnac also sees your four year old Deka Gels are probably toast. 4 years is actually a pretty good run.
I suppose you could try and resurrect them by boosting them back up with a 12v charger. Take your time This will probably take a week. Do a couple passes on each battery and monitor progress. When done, do a load test and see if the V is real.
Sorry about that - I accidentally posted outside of the GEM forum and then copied (incompletely) here.
You are right about the time since used - actually 5 months . Not sure of the master switch position, but probably on.
I will charge each battery separately and see what happens.
Thanks for your help, greatly appreciated.
I assume No possibility of using the R4F charger. I have 2 decent 12v chargers that i can cycle through.
I have not had hands on R4F charger. I’m guessing that it won’t start that low.
Give them all a hit up to 6v and see if it will kick in.
Key is to get them all very close to being the same in the end.
A balanced pack is a happy pack.
R$F StuperDuperCharger is a bone stock QuickCharge Corp SCO-7200. You can get all the documents at QuickCharge.
I had one at one time. They are probably the best iron core chargers I’ve ever used. Not super bright, but they go like a main battle tank taking a shortcut through a china shop… but i don’t remember if it had a minimum trigger voltage, so @AssyRequired sugguestion about using individual 12v chargers is valid.
Very important that you check the charge profile setting on it. They come set for flooded lead acid batteries. You have gel cells, the SCO-7200 will litterally boil the gel in those batteries and destroy them if you dont change the profile. The procedure is in the manuals at QCC, it will take you all of 90 seconds to go through.