How Does a Generator Work?
Before knowing the method of how to charge a generator battery, we should know how a generator works? Some people thought the generator makes the electricity, but the generator is used to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, which we use to giving power electric products or devices like light, fan. As simple as, generator make the energy when we give him a mechanical energy in a form of output, and it gives us an electrical energy in form of output.
How to charge a Generator Battery?
If you are charging the generator battery for first time so make sure you wear basic safety equipments like gloves, safety glasses. Because charging the generator battery for the first time can maybe become a very dangerous. You can follow these steps for charging a generator battery:
Warm up Generator
Before connecting the battery charger to the generator, you should warm up the generator, it will help the generator to work properly. So first turn on the generator for some minutes to do warm up.
Connect battery with the Charger
After warm upping the generator, connect the battery charger to the battery. If you don’t know how to connect, so connect the red positive (+) wire with positive battery terminal and black negative wire to with negative (-) battery terminal. Don’t mix up the wires, it can be a cause of electric shock.
Connect Charger to Generator
Now after all steps connect the battery charger with generator, if you have any manual book which comes with the battery charger, you should read. And now turn on the generator and leave it turn on until the battery is fully charged.
How do you keep a generator battery charged when not used?
Mostly, the generator is used wherever the electricity goes, But where electricity does not go, it is necessary to keep the battery charged. Otherwise, the battery may be damage. So when a generator is not in use, you can follow these tips to maintain the battery health good:
- Start the generator for 2 to 5 minutes after 3 days.
- Keep the battery clean from corrosion. You can use hot water for cleaning the corrosion from the terminals of battery.
- Checking the battery water and voltage can save your battery from damage.
- You can also use an external charger to charge the generator battery.
How do I keep my generator battery from dying?
Keep generator battery from dying is a very easy method for a man who do it properly, but it’s also very hard for a man who does not know how to keep generator battery from dying. You should keep your battery from dying by using these steps:
- Keep Clean: Keep clean your battery is first and basic step for increasing and keep battery from dying, so clean dust from your battery.
- Corrosion: Corrosion is a basic problem of every battery, it’s like some hard dust on the battery terminals, If you see any corrosion on your battery so clean it by dropping some hot water on the terminals.
- Use Properly: If your generator is not in use so it can become a cause of dead battery cell, So even if you don’t use the generator very often, you should still run it once or twice a week for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Check Water level: Make sure your battery water level always complete, but if you have AGM batteries, you should not need to check because AGM batteries don’t use water.
- Replace Battery: If your battery becomes bad so should replace it, don’t use the battery which is in very bad situation because it can be to explode.
