conditions are met:

A battery is connected

The battery is connected with proper polarity

The battery voltage is between 5 volts and 13 volts

The Truecharge 10 will not act as a battery eliminator or power supply. It must be connected to a battery to operate.

Once the Truecharge 10 detects proper connection to a battery, it begins the three-step charging cycle. The Truecharge 10 will stop charging if it detects the following conditions:

Battery voltage less than 10 volts or greater than the gassing voltage

Internal charger temperature greater than 70 °C

The Truecharge 10 will automatically start charging again if it detects that the battery voltage or charger temperature have returned to safe levels.

The Truecharge 10 completes the absorption charge and goes to float mode when one of the following two conditions are met:

Charger output current has dropped below one ampere (flooded type batteries remain at absorption voltage for an additional hour after current has dropped to one ampere)

The charger has been in absorption charge mode for more than 5 hours.

This “time out” feature protects against situations where a load connected to the battery prevents the charger current from dropping below one ampere.

The Truecharge 10 will leave float mode and start another three-step charging cycle under any one of the following conditions:

Battery voltage drops below 12.5 volts for more than 15 minutes

21 days have passed since the last charging cycle occurred

The battery has been disconnected for more than 30 seconds and is then reconnected

AC power has been disconnected for more than 30 seconds.

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