I don't know whether Genesis batteries have changed since the Hawker days, but in cyclic use Hawker used to recommend constant voltage charging at 14.7 to 15 volts, with an optional float stage following at 13.65v.
Those voltages were at 25 deg C and were meant to be adjusted for temperature at 18mv per deg C. http://evdl.org/docs/hawker4e.pdf So unless you're charging at -30 deg C ( -22 deg F), I would say that 16 volts is too high. I see no percentage in speculating on what, if anything, may have gone wrong with the charger. Maybe it was just designed poorly. Get in there and do some checking, or junk it and get one that you know works right. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. A man who could afford fifty dollar boots had a pair that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap [ten dollar] boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. -- Terry Pratchett, "Men at Arms: The Play" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
