Did I kill my battery?

[Z06tacoma]

Went to take a ride yesterday and the trike wouldn't start even though I had the tender on it. Found out I somehow switched the tender to 6 volts.

So I charged it correctly and took it for a spin. Seemed OK today.

But I'm wondering if I might have Hurt to battery for failure down the road ?

 

[rhino 2]

Went to take a ride yesterday and the trike wouldn't start even though I had the tender on it. Found out I somehow switched the tender to 6 volts.

So I charged it correctly and took it for a spin. Seemed OK today.

But I'm wondering if I might have Hurt to battery for failure down the road ?

Na......You are ok, Now if you had a 6volt battery and tried to charge it with 12 volts then you probably fried it...I did that on a 65 VW...:blowup:

 

[Philip R]

I see no problems to this error. +1 What Bob says about charging a 6 vt. to 12 vt. is not good.

 

[hogcowboy]

There might even be a circuit protecter in the tender to protect everything.

 

[Trampas]

As they said above, but if you are in doubt change it to a new one and good to go

All for now Trampas

 

[Papa Zook]

Went to take a ride yesterday and the trike wouldn't start even though I had the tender on it. Found out I somehow switched the tender to 6 volts.

So I charged it correctly and took it for a spin. Seemed OK today.

But I'm wondering if I might have Hurt to battery for failure down the road ?

It will do no damage whatsoever. If your battery had discharged to less than 6 volts, it would only charge it up to 6 volts. If your charger is a "Smart" charger it would not charge it at all if your battery was under 11 volts. Most smart chargers won't charge a battery discharged below 11 volts because the thought is there is a shorted cell and charging with the normal 14.2 volts will overcharge the remaining cells. Bottom line, you did no damage to your battery.

 

[Burnerboy]

That is actually a great question
I'd be worried myself, if I had made the same mistake (and believe me it's very easy to do ) and batteries r not cheap anymore.......

 

[New Orleans Kevin]

That is actually a great question
I'd be worried myself, if I had made the same mistake (and believe me it's very easy to do ) and batteries r not cheap anymore.......

A little off topic, but nothing is cheap anymore………………

 

[mr.precision]

I have a Shumacher tender on my 2012 TG. It automatically switches from 6 to 12V depending on load. I made the same mistake a few years back with a switchable tender and put it on 6v for a 12v tractor battery. Left it like that for a month. Didn't do any harm.
Interesting that early this year, the tender on the TG showed a green-light full charge but the bike wouldn't start. Load test indicated a weak cell. New battery fixed that.

 

[Papa Zook]

I have a Shumacher tender on my 2012 TG. It automatically switches from 6 to 12V depending on load. I made the same mistake a few years back with a switchable tender and put it on 6v for a 12v tractor battery. Left it like that for a month. Didn't do any harm.
Interesting that early this year, the tender on the TG showed a green-light full charge but the bike wouldn't start. Load test indicated a weak cell. New battery fixed that.

That's pretty common actually. I get a lot of bikes in to be converted to trikes that have been sitting for a while and we always immediately put them on one of our Noco smart chargers, both to top it off and also to check it's health. It can show a full charge and still not crank the bike, so we then load test it.