Walmart Everstart 11.7 volts?

[dan filipi]

Just a heads up I wouldn't trust this AGM...Walmart Everstart.

I bought it maybe a year ago. It's a smal 5 Ah I got to demo landscape lighting on jobs.
I used for maybe an hour max since I got it on demo's then charged it after.
It's been sitting on the wood bench maybe 3 months without a charger connected and reads 11.7 volts. I put it on the AGM charger yesterday which immediately reads it's fully charged. Let it run a few hours to "recondition" it and this morning reads just 11.7 volts.
I'm going to put it on my older style auto 2/10/50 amp charger at 2 amps for a few hours to see if it might bring it back but I rather doubt it will.

 

[slabghost]

That'd be okay for my yard tractor. Oh well sometimes your lucky and sometimes not so lucky.

 

[detdrbuzzard]

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That'd be okay for my yard tractor. Oh well sometimes your lucky and sometimes not so lucky.

that's why I stopped using walmart battries

 

[Omega Man]

That AGM that failed me a few months ago was from Walmart. The new one is from Autozone.

~O~

 

[dan filipi]

Ha so before I knew about this battery problem I ordered an agm for the KLR from "Gold batteries" and it turns out this is the brand Walmart now sells lol. Oh well, maybe Walmart changed after getting defects from the other.

 

[julimike54]

At the lot we called those Walmart Neverstart, we replaced a bunch and they made it such a hassle to warranty, we just gave up and replaced them.