Halfrauds Smart Charger

[RantMachine]

Trying to get The Bike That Must Not Be Named (now affectionally named Voldemort, also fitting seeing as the GS has a ruddy great nose and the Lexmoto doesn't) into a state where it's fit to sell.

Just bought one of the above named chargers, and am a little confused...

If I connect the + wire to the + terminal as common sense would dictate to me and the pictures in the manual seem to show, the Polarity Protection LED comes on and the charging light does nowt. If I switch the connections around, the charging light comes on, the Polarity Protection stays off, and the battery makes the very quiet fizzing noise I'd expect it to.

What do you reckon, just go with it? Certainly seems to be charging but it feels more than a little odd to have the cablesconnected up in what seems to me to be the wrong way round. Of course, I know nothing soit could just be my interpretation that's wrong.

[Tango]

Hmmm.....don't sound right Ollie......maybe take the charger back and get them to check it.....

[RantMachine]

Yeah, that was my general feeling

Oh, for just one day where I try to do something to one of the bikes and it goes both smoothly and succesfully...

[Fozzie]

Weird...

Usually connecting a charger to the wrong terminals causes lots of sparks and problems.

But the charger might not pack enough juice!

Connect it again and check the battery with a multi-meter.

Could be the battery is so low it's expired and now won't accept charge off a charger. I've had that happen a few times.

[runningman]

Smart charger should tell you if you have the + and - connected the wrong way. The Optimate ones do anyway.

[RantMachine]

I'm going to go for the foolproof solution of returning it and going a few more weeks trying to put that bike out of my mind

[megawatt]

Try it on another good battery first. I have heard of faulty batteries reversing polarity. Don,t ask me how.