general safety precaution. hooking up the battery charger to a connected
battery can have two effects.

1. cause a spark and ignite potential hydrogen gasses emitted from the
battery

2. overload the charger and possibly destroy it.

Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.522.5503
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA

>From: JD Foster <jidd@JIDDWARE.COM>
>Reply-To: JD Foster <jidd@JIDDWARE.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Trickle Charger Hookup
>Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:03:06 -0700
>
>This weekend I picked up a little trickle charger that I'd like to
>permanently install and hardwire so that it keeps the battery topped off
>whenever the westy is plugged in.  The question I have is with regards
>to the instructions, which say to disconnect the negative terminal from
>the battery when putting the charger on.
>
>Is this just a general safety precaution or is it really necessary for
>this application?

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