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Originally Posted by Paul Hatchman
Hi Erick,
Is it a standard car-battery charger? If so, go and grab yourself an intelligent charger with a gel cell setting if you can afford it.
Gel batteries need to be charged at a lower voltage than wet cells to prevent them from outgassing. Since there is no way to replace the outgassed hydrogen in a gel cell, you're going to shorten the life of the battery.
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Indeed gel cells require different handling to wet cell lead acid batteries.
Nominal trickle voltage is 13.8V for wets and 13.65V for gels. You can boost charge wets at 14.4V I think. Doing the same to a gel is very inadvisable.