Trolling battery will only charge to 8.2 volt. Why?

• Feb 25, 2018

• #1

harderthansoft

Senior Member

My trolling battery I bought from Wal-Mart only like 9 months ago won't charge past 8.2 bolts. Any ideas how to fix?
My receipt has been kept with my fishing license. I assume it got damp. There is hardly any of the print left. It has totally faded away. So probably can't return it.

 

• Feb 25, 2018

• #2

NOYDB

BANNED

Could be a bad cell. May be needs some distilled water added. Time for a replacement.

 

• Feb 25, 2018

• #3

rospaw

Senior Member

harderthansoft said:

My receipt has been kept with my fishing license. I assume it got damp. There is hardly any of the print left. It has totally faded away. So probably can't return it.

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They will return/swap it. They will scan the bar code on battery, no need for a receipt.

 

• Feb 26, 2018

• #4

T-N-T

Senior Member

Also, receipt ink fades in time often.
So you can't show them I figure


But batteries go bad easy some times

I had two six year batteries bad in 29 months

 

• Feb 26, 2018

• #5

T-N-T

Senior Member

Also if you left it sit all winter and drain, you killed it.

Batteries NEED to be charged every month or so

 

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6

GoldDot40

Senior Member

T-N-T said:

Also if you left it sit all winter and drain, you killed it.

Batteries NEED to be charged every month or so

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Or kept on an automatic trickle charge.

 

• Feb 27, 2018

• #7

marathon

Senior Member

As stated before battery probably has one or more bad cells. Most batteries have a code stamped into them which at least tells manufacture date. They should be able to recognize battery as one of their on and decipher code to get best gestimation on sale date, cause "usually" batteries only set on shelves for x amount of time.

 

• Feb 27, 2018

• #8

FootLongDawg

Senior Member

rospaw said:

They will return/swap it. They will scan the bar code on battery, no need for a receipt.

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This. Walmart does not ask for receipts.

 

• Feb 28, 2018

• #9

treemanjohn

Banned

Receipts are made on thermal paper so they fade quickly. I take a picture of hte receipt and email it to myself in gmail. I put the name of the item in the subject line and message body so it's easily searchable. The barcode scanners at the store can read it perfectly

 

• Mar 1, 2018

• #10

J

JohnK

Senior Member

You might look at BatteriesPlus too.

 

• Mar 1, 2018

• #11

biggdogg

Senior Member

Dead cell

 

• Mar 1, 2018

• #12

GA native

Senior Member

Sounds like a dead cell or two. Like Rospaw said, they'll exchange it. Wally World is cool like that.

 

• Mar 2, 2018

• #13

harderthansoft

Senior Member

Was able to get it replaced after work yesterday. No issues at all. Thanks guys.