I am not familiar with batteries at all, but I just want to know how I can charge them faster? slower? with constant voltage or current?
If I want to charge a Flooded Lead Acid battery with a power supply. By looking at the graph of the charging stages of lead acid batteries, in the first stage it requires constant current with increasing in voltage and in the second stage current will decrease and voltage will decrease a little bit. Finally, current still decreasing and the voltage decreased a little bit. Now, can I just set the power supply voltage to 14.4 V since it is six cells and limiting the current to the maximum rate of charge current. Then If I see the voltage dropped based on a value in the datasheet, I can say the battery is fully charged? if this is the correct way to charge the flooded lead acid battery, if I want to charge it faster, I can only increase the current during the first stage only with keeping the power supply set to 14.4V?
If I want to charge a Flooded Lead Acid battery with a power supply. By looking at the graph of the charging stages of lead acid batteries, in the first stage it requires constant current with increasing in voltage and in the second stage current will decrease and voltage will decrease a little bit. Finally, current still decreasing and the voltage decreased a little bit. Now, can I just set the power supply voltage to 14.4 V since it is six cells and limiting the current to the maximum rate of charge current. Then If I see the voltage dropped based on a value in the datasheet, I can say the battery is fully charged? if this is the correct way to charge the flooded lead acid battery, if I want to charge it faster, I can only increase the current during the first stage only with keeping the power supply set to 14.4V?