6A charger - sufficient?

[venahaks]

My neighbor's TXT (lead acid, 36V) is okay, but she's using a 3rd party charger rated at 6A. It was $100 on Amazon, and it charges, but I noticed today that it gets pretty warm and never goes into trickle-charge mode.

She *never* drives more than one mile between charges, and *always* keeps the unit plugged in when it's in the garage.

Is this 6A charger sufficient?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[cgtech]

Not at all, terrible for battery life. The real charger causes mixing in the battery. The electrolyte is part water & part acid. Water's specific gravity (referred to as SG here forward) is loosely 1.0, battery acid is higher. The "whole mix" evens out about at 1.22 SG. Without proper mixing, the heavier acid will end up at the bottom, while the lighter water will end up at the top. (Referred to as stratification). You might think "well, it should get mixed up during use", but the plates in the battery can't wait, nor expect that. To do their job, they have to see a homologous mix whenever they are charged or discharged. A little baby charger can't make that mix happen. Then there is the factor of the cheapo charger crapping out every 6 months. If you buy a cheapo charger every year or less, it won't take long before the good charger was the better deal. Maybe if your planning on death during the next year or 2, it's the better deal? And the poor china quality with its garage fire risks. Those crappers are the hallmark of shady golf cart flippers who don't care what happens as soon as it's out of their sight.

[LukeL]

cgtech said it- those are horrible! Have her get a real charger.

[Zincode]

China garbage. Make Amazon take it back

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[Zincode]

Trump should tariff the junk $10,000 each

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