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<blockquote data-quote="sl1000794" data-source="post: 321408" data-attributes="member: 6974">OK guys, here is what I know from experience about batteries from dealing with the Interstate Battery commercial battery dealer in San Jose.&nbsp; I use all Interstate batteries. (I think that Walmart batteries are Interstate batteries.)&nbsp;If a battery (or battery bank) in a boat or diesel vehicle go bad and will not take a charge from a home charger, it doesn’t mean that the batteries are DEAD.&nbsp; I speak from experience (and I may be speaking to the choir to most of you on this Forum.)&nbsp;If a battery goes “dead” and will not take a charge from our home charger we think it is DEAD!&nbsp; Not necessarily so.&nbsp; Home chargers MUST detect a minimal amount of amps going into the battery for the charger to work and charge the battery(s).&nbsp; I know this because when we left CA last spring I had put 2 new Interstate batteries in my Ford Powerstroke.&nbsp; When we got back in February they were dead and I took them in for an exchange.&nbsp; The manager said that they only had 1 volt of charge and the batteries had been discharged in the vehicle while I was gone and the warranty did not apply.&nbsp; But he would try to charge them.&nbsp; (I had put my charger on them but no luck.)&nbsp;Interstate will put several charged batteries in parallel on my discharge batteries to FORCE amps into my DEAD batteries so that my batteries will accept charging from a battery charger.&nbsp;You can do this yourselves by hooking up “DEAD” batteries to your diesel vehicles (or trucks/cars) and letting them idle for several/many hours to put a charge on the “dead” batteries so they will accept a charge from a 12v charger.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sl1000794, post: 321408, member: 6974"] OK guys, here is what I know from experience about batteries from dealing with the Interstate Battery commercial battery dealer in San Jose. I use all Interstate batteries. (I think that Walmart batteries are Interstate batteries.) If a battery (or battery bank) in a boat or diesel vehicle go bad and will not take a charge from a home charger, it doesn’t mean that the batteries are DEAD. I speak from experience (and I may be speaking to the choir to most of you on this Forum.) If a battery goes “dead” and will not take a charge from our home charger we think it is DEAD! Not necessarily so. Home chargers MUST detect a minimal amount of amps going into the battery for the charger to work and charge the battery(s). I know this because when we left CA last spring I had put 2 new Interstate batteries in my Ford Powerstroke. When we got back in February they were dead and I took them in for an exchange. The manager said that they only had 1 volt of charge and the batteries had been discharged in the vehicle while I was gone and the warranty did not apply. But he would try to charge them. (I had put my charger on them but no luck.) Interstate will put several charged batteries in parallel on my discharge batteries to FORCE amps into my DEAD batteries so that my batteries will accept charging from a battery charger. You can do this yourselves by hooking up “DEAD” batteries to your diesel vehicles (or trucks/cars) and letting them idle for several/many hours to put a charge on the “dead” batteries so they will accept a charge from a 12v charger. [/QUOTE]

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