Hot battery while charging

[jeff127]

I just installed a new 3 bank charger(old one fried last fall) and noticed that after a full day the charging light was still on. After inspecting all batteries and connections one of the batteries is hot and the other 2 are air temp. I swapped charger leads to different batteries to see if that made a difference....tried charging again and same result. Hot battery is one of 2 blue top optimas on the 24v bank....is this a sign of a fried battery?

[Rick G]

Could be a bad cell, only way to know for sure is to test it and see it it holds voltage

[BobT]

Sounds like possible shorted cell. Perhaps a specific gravity test may locate it.

[eurolarva]

Take that battery off the charger and take it to Batteries plus and have them load test it. Not sure how you are charging but one bad battery in parallel normally does not bode well for the better batteries.