Charging bike batteries

[Cigaro]

Hi,

Is it safe to charge bike batteries from a car charger? Should I remove the cell caps?

If it provides too much current, is there anthing I can do to limit the amount of current, like a resistor etc?

[LeeR]

I think they must be different my Halfords charger has two switches one which toggles between "bike" and "car", and the second which toggles between "sealed" and "standard" I notice that the Oxford Optimiser also has a different settings (3 actually) one for car, one for bike, and one for leisure batteries. I'd check out the charger was capable of charging a bike battery before I hooked it up.

EDIT: actually it's the Oxford Maximiser, Optimiser is Hein Gericke's version, looks like the mA rates are different: 600mA for bikes, 3600mA for cars.
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