Safe Usage of Car Battery Charger

Before you do anything with a car battery, please consider the following safety precaution:

You need to wear eye protection
Car Batteries produce hydrogen gas that is extremely flammable. So you should remove any naked flame or avoid any action that can cause spark. This includes cigarettes and other smoking products.
Car Batteries contain sulfuric acid so its recommend that you wear latex gloves to keep battery acid from burning your hands.

If you are a do-it-yourself kind of person and you want to charge your car battery that has gone dead, then there are some important things you should take into consideration that can do your job safer and effective.

As may have already known, car battery is filled with acid and it's a very important rule that you never ever charge a frozen battery. If you do charge a frozen car battery, chances are, it will explode.

If you are charging your battery due to frequent power drainage of the battery, you should first check that if the battery is fault and cannot used any more. How you can do that? Simple, charge the battery for some time and leave it for 24 hours whit out connection it to anything and check the voltage after 24 hours. If the battery still have the charge after 24 hours that means, it's good. If not, you need to change the battery. If you have been reading my other article about portable car battery charger, then you should probably know the sequence of car battery charger connection with the battery. Always you should connect the positive terminals, which are marked by "+" sign and when you disconnect. Always disconnect, the negative cable ends. This procedure helps you to avoid any possible short circuit. You should also make sure that you have connected the correct ends of each cable with the correct terminals. If you switch positive with negative, you may damage your batter, even worse, the battery may explode. So keep in mind that.

After you connected the correct cable ends with correct terminals, turn on the charger. If your car battery has ammeter you should see some current flow telling you that charging is in progress. Leave it running, until the ammeter indicator drops to zero. If your car battery charger has no gauge, then you may use the color indicator found on some car batteries to tell whether the battery is fully charged or not. Some car batteries have a color indicator that goes black when the battery is dead and turn green when it's fully charged.

It may be a little intimidating at first because of all the safety consideration you should take in consideration to use a car battery charger all by yourself, but once you do it, you will become very comfortable.

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