achris
More fish than mountain goat
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Re: boat lights no battery
The set up you have in the photo is an old transformer charger... The OP named his charger in the OP... That is a switch mode charger... Turn is on with anything but a battery connected and the output voltage will continue to go up until the load either absorbs the current or disappears... Goodbye lamp filament...
Put a voltmeter on the output of that charger and tell me what you find... I'll bet it's a lot higher than 12 volts...
Chris...........
The set up you have in the photo is an old transformer charger... The OP named his charger in the OP... That is a switch mode charger... Turn is on with anything but a battery connected and the output voltage will continue to go up until the load either absorbs the current or disappears... Goodbye lamp filament...
Put a voltmeter on the output of that charger and tell me what you find... I'll bet it's a lot higher than 12 volts...
Chris...........