I bought my youngest son a new Polaris RZR look-a-like ride-on toy today and am questioning the best way to charge the battery on it. I have always heard/read that the included brick chargers (chinese junk) are bad for the batteries and overcharge them, resulting in a short life, in the 3-5 month range and with generally poor performance over that time.
I looked at the electrical layout and it's a 24V 7Ah sealed lead acid battery. The charger is a 24v 1000mA brick unit, has a red/green charge indicator so appears to be somewhat of a smart charger in that it turns itself off (hopefully), but I still don't put a whole lot of faith into it. It connects through a standard size barrel plug and is wired directly to the battery with no intervening electronics.
I am wondering if my Noco Genius 7200 would work on it-- it has a 24v 3.6 amp setting but only has modes for "normal lead acid" and "cold/AGM" at that voltage. I'm not sure if or how the charging requirements of a sealed lead acid battery (similar to what you find in a computer UPS) differ from a standard lead acid or AGM type. Or if a 0.5C charging rate would be okay on these types of batteries. Perhaps there's something out there specifically for these types of batteries I should look into. Curious what you guys think...
I looked at the electrical layout and it's a 24V 7Ah sealed lead acid battery. The charger is a 24v 1000mA brick unit, has a red/green charge indicator so appears to be somewhat of a smart charger in that it turns itself off (hopefully), but I still don't put a whole lot of faith into it. It connects through a standard size barrel plug and is wired directly to the battery with no intervening electronics.
I am wondering if my Noco Genius 7200 would work on it-- it has a 24v 3.6 amp setting but only has modes for "normal lead acid" and "cold/AGM" at that voltage. I'm not sure if or how the charging requirements of a sealed lead acid battery (similar to what you find in a computer UPS) differ from a standard lead acid or AGM type. Or if a 0.5C charging rate would be okay on these types of batteries. Perhaps there's something out there specifically for these types of batteries I should look into. Curious what you guys think...