Can You Start A Car With A Trickle Charger Attached. A trickle charger can take up to 48 hours to charge a battery to full capacity as most only use one to two amps of power. The next step is to select a good location for attaching the negative terminal of your trickle charger.
If your answer is yes you can now begin charging your battery. The voltage I measure on the battery when the charger is connected is no different than when it isnt. Unlike a basic trickle charger which constantly delivers a very low current a float charger monitors the battery as it self discharges and delivers enough current to.
The positive post will have a indicator on it.
It will be still danger to overcharge your car battery. For those trickle charger units that are just a transformer you plug into the wall and connect two leads to the battery probably not a. The typical result with a flat battery is that the vehicle attempts to draw the power required to turn the engine over the biggest ever demand on a car battery from the low output. FasterIsBetter Feb 5 2008.
