To ensure safe operation and handling, the battery charger provides protection against:
- sparking when connecting the clamps, as the charging lines are not live
- reverse polarity and short-circuiting the charging lines
- thermal overload of the battery charger
Charging line damaged or in-
terrupted
Check charging line / repair fault(s)
Indicator Status Remedy
“Charge” indicator (2) is lit up
No charging lines are con-
nected to the battery
Check connection
Battery is being charged -
Charge time exceeded during
main charging
Switch off any parallel loads
Check set characteristic
Check battery (cell short circuit)
Check device
“Final/Add. charge” indicator (3)
is lit up
Battery is being final-charged -
“Compensation charge” indic. (4)
is lit up
Battery is being compensati-
on-charged
-
“Fault” indicator (5) is lit up Charging lines connected w.
reverse polarity
Connect cables the right way round
„Error“ indicator (5) flashes
“Charge” (2), “Final/Additional
charge” (3) and “Compensation
Charge” (4) indicators are lit up
Indicators are not lit up, even
though battery is connected
Battery is not being charged
“Final/Add.charge” indicator (3)
is lit up
Battery is being given an equa-
lisation charge
-
Stop button (6) pressed - char-
ging has been interrupted (pa-
rameters remain stored)
Press Stop button (6) again to re-
start charging
„Final/recharge“ (3) and „Error“
(5) indicators flash
Charge time exceeded during
final charging
Occurs mainly with old batteries
Switch off any parallel loads
Check set characteristic
Check device
Change battery if necessary
Connect charger to mains supply
Description of
indicators
Option
Protection
against undesi-
red starting