What amp charger?

[Kyle Sandberg]

While buying a new battery, the salesman told me that you should use a 1.5 amp charger instead of a 2 or 10. He went on to say the higher amp burns out the battery. What do you guys think?

[HaywardBound]

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50%=50/100=1/2=.5

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Now I'm confused, you mean half full or half empty?

[pfluemis]

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50%=50/100=1/2=.5

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Nice try....wrong. The formula clearly said to insert percentage of drain. That means the number 50 must be inserted. Nowhere in the formula was there a conversion for the percentage to be made into a decimal or fraction. Accuracy is the only way to get a mathmatical formula to work correctly. There is NEVER any room for assumption in a mathmatical formula.

[Cabela10]

I thought a % always gets converted to a .50 when in an equation. It just simply doesn't turn into a 50. You put it in the calc as 50% or .50 It's always .50, you always move the decimal point over 2 spots. Learned that in like 6th grade.

[Whoaru99]

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50%=50/100=1/2=.5

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Nice try....wrong. The formula clearly said to insert percentage of drain. That means the number 50 must be inserted. Nowhere in the formula was there a conversion for the percentage to be made into a decimal or fraction. Accuracy is the only way to get a mathmatical formula to work correctly. There is NEVER any room for assumption in a mathmatical formula.

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Percent is universally understood (by most, anyway) to mean a fraction having a denominator of 100.

So, when the formula say PERCENTAGE of drain (using the example of 50) it means 50/100, or 0.5.

No need to make such a simple and universal concept so difficult.