Supercharge All-Rounder batteries- what charger settings do you use?

Fugwurgin!

The Supercharge All-Rounder battery is a 12V Expanded Calcium Grid battery so should be charged, as advised, on the calcium setting.

However a quick G00GLE search may bring up other interesting information for you that's probably not relevant to your initial question.

Maîneÿ . . .

Whilst not directly answering your question, a good thread to read with some good background info would be this one:

Which charger for calcium batteries

The calcium setting (15.5v) sounds like it is the best for your battery ;)

Hope that helps

Andrew

I have had 3 of those......the first two failed at 11 months....replaced under warranty.......the 3rd went at 13 months.....dealer didnt want to know me and had also stopped selling them

just thought you might like to know :)

The battery is a lead flooded battery with the plates constructed so that the top of the plates are lighter for use as a starter battery and the lower section of the plates are heavier to provide the deep cycle aspect.

I was advised that my normal "home" battery charger with a charge then maintenance cycle was best but would take a while to charge due to its lower output (only about 3 amps).

The battery is normally charged from my alternator when I drive around but at home I put it on the above charger once a week with no problems.

In the type of charger you mentioned I believe it should be set to wet - there is no evidence I can find concerning it being calcium.

Garry

From the Supercharge website:

SuperCharge starting and deep cycle batteries are designed for more than starting, better able to sustain constant accessory loads. Powered by Expanded Calcium Grid (EXG) Technology, it can tolerate high temperature, resist vibration and provide high cranking power and reserve capacity.
AllRounder

ALLROUNDER

I've had one in the Patrol as second battewry for two years now. It's still going OK.

Peter

Thank you to all who have posted a reply.

I now have the answer- i will be changing my settings to "calcium" and i will see if my little clear eye goes green!

cheers

Hi Fugwurgin, you haven’t mentioned whether you over discharged the battery at any time.

These are just like conventional flooded wet cell batteries in that they do not like deep discharge cycles and the more and deeper you do discharge them, the shorter the life span you can expect.

Calcium/Calcium batteries, like just about everything else related to vehicle 12v systems and batteries, are surrounded with a lot of mysticism.

I can see these batteries probably replace all other forms, including AGMs, in the not to distant future.

But to your problem, you don’t need to have a special charger for charging a calcium battery. A normal charger will work fine, it just won’t fully charger these batteries just as your alternator will not fully charge them.

Contrary to how this may sounds, it’s actually not a problem and there is no evidence that you need to fully charge them to get a decent life span from them.

While your alternator and a standard battery charger will not fully charge them, they will charge them to 95-97% and this seems to be satisfactory to keep them in good nick.

These batteries are not all that new and have been around in large enough numbers to show they are good value for money and as to Allrounders in specific, I have two of them I use for different testing and R&D work, one of them is coming up to 4 years old and is still in top nick and I either use a standard 5 stage charger, no special C/C setting or an alternator to charge them.

Hi Fugwurgin

I've been running 2 of these in my patrol for a couple of years now, and I have an electro 20amp charger.

I use the "calcium" and 13.8v float settings. No trouble getting the "condition eye" back to green.

I'm very happy with the charger and the batteries.

Cheers.