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Vinnie.

Item 2/ in my post.

The fact that your charger goes into TRICKLE mode does not, unfortunately, mean your battery is fully charged.

All that charger is telling you is that the part of your battery that is healthy enough to take a charge has been charged.

If your battery is almost at the end of its useful life and the plates are beginning to fail that charger just says---I've done my best with what's left of your battery plates. The resistance they put up when I'm tying to charge them says to me they are fully charged so I relay that message to you. BUT it's very rarely true.---

You could be fighting a losing battle with a battery that's on its last gasp.

Nowadays when the acid in a battery can't be got at to test it the best remaining way is with a garage Drop-Tester.--