I am trying to charge my trolling motor batteries, and the charger is telling me the clamps are reversed, even though they are correct. I didn’t have any issues charging the other two. Is the battery toast, or anything I can do to salvage? It’s a Walmart deep cycle battery that is 4 years old. Thanks as always for your help.
I would eat with a battery tester as a first step. If it’s 10.5 or below it’s toast. After 4 years that would not surprise me.
Essential tool for any boat owner unless your motor has a pull cord.
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200611634_200611634
That one is decent load tester with a couple of other simple battery tests.
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Thanks for the advice! I will defintely do that.
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after time batteries can reverse polarity.
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also, chargers can fail.
unplug charges.
test polarity on battery
plug charger in and test again
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