12V is not the right trickle voltage. I forget what it is, but it's a little
above a fully-charged battery, which will actually register something just a
touch higher than 12.6 V at rest - and having rested a while since being on
the charger.

I have several battery links posted at
www.ctlow.ca/Trojan26/index.html#battery. One of them is www.batteryfaq.org.
It's a complicated topic.

Charles

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Charles T. Low
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www.boatdocking.com
www.ctlow.ca/Trojan26 - my boat

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"Joe Here" wrote in message
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I have a question I've pondered for a while ..........

On a trickle charger, if you were to connect an IC
that limits the voltage to 12 Volts only ( LM12 ) could you
leave the charger on indefinately without damage to the battery?