General Battery Safety; Troubleshooting; Fault Led Lit; Internal Short Cell Battery - Vector VEC1087C Owner's Manual

Do not chorge the bottery while woiting for the engine to
worm.
This
will
involidote ony olternotor
check. The digitol disploy
should show the
circuloting pottern while the engine
is
worming. Do
not
turn on
A/C
or
the defroster system to lood
the olternotor.
These occessories
moy stort operoting
during o
test sequence
ond give on involid
result.
GENERAI. BAITERY SATEIY
With minimol
moinlenonce, the VEC1087C
2/6/10
AJ'A?
Smorl Bottery Chorger
will
provide yeors of dependoble
service. Follow these simple steps lo mointoin
the chorger in optimum condition:
t
After eoch
use, cleon the
bottery chorger clomps - be
sure
lo
remove
ony
bottrery
fluid thot will
couse corrosion
of
the copper clomps.
.
Cleon the ouiside cose of
fie
chorger
with o
soft
cloth
ond, if
necessory,
mild soop solution.
o Do nol ollow liquid to enter
the chorger. Do nol operote when chorger
is
wet.
.
Keep the chorger cords loosely coiled during storoge to prevent domoge
trc
the cords.
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Pt
u19
chgrger if cords or clomps hore been domoged in ony woy - coll
Vector Technicol Support Deportmenl
toll-free: (866) 584-5504 to reploce cords ond
clomps.
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TROUBI.ESHOOTIilG. FAUTI
I.ED
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The
following conditions moy
lighlhe
FAULT
LED:
o
Poor connection
to botteqy (or frome).
.
Chorging too fost -
Decreose Chorge
Rote
-
Press
2/6/
10
AMp
button
to lower
rote.
'
Chorging
trco
slowly
-
Botcry
is
lorge ond did
not
compleis chorging in 24
hours
-
Press
2/6/
10
AMP to chorge
or
o foster
role-
.
Shorted bottery
cell -
Reploce
bottery
(F0i).
.
Open bottery Cell -
Reploce bottery (F03).
o
Reverse Polority
LED Lit
- disconnect AC rhen
reverse clomp locotions on bottery ond frome.
o
lnternol overheot in chorger- moke
sure
fon
is not blocked (F05).
Try
chorging onother bottery if
the
FAUTT LED does
not light, then one o[ the obove problems
exists
with
fie
initiol botterv.
9-hgtg:r-
will_
not chorge ond the fon will
not operote
i[
there is
o
foult. Coli
Vector Technicol
Suppo* toll fre!:
(866) 584-5504.
I1{IIRilA1 SHoRI
(t11 BAIIIRY (Iot}
.
lf the bofiery being chorged
hos
on internol
shorred cell, the
FAULT
LED
will
lighr.
'
lf
FAU\T LED light
comes
on,
Veclor recommends you toke your boitery to
o
ceriified outomolive
service center
IOr
evotuoflon.
BATTTRY
1{OI
AC(TMilG
A
ffARGt
' Moke
sure
thot the chorger is plugged
intro
o "live"
'l
lo/l2ovAc
ou
er
ond
power
LED
is lit.
t
UnPlug chorger ond
check bottery connections
-
ensure
thol lhere
is
o good conneclion ot the
boHeqy
terminol ond/or
vehicle chossis.
.
Check thot the correct chorge rote wos
selected
for the bottery being chorged.
o
Ensure
thol enough chorging time wos ollowed for-check toble in (poge
'10)
for opproximote chorging
times.
l{0I[:
Chorger will NOT operote on botteries below 2.0 Volts. lf
o l2
Volt
bottery
is
below 2.0
vohs ir is
probobly
shorted,
open or sulfoied ond should be reploced.
VTRY CO1D BATTTRY
lf
the bottery to be,chorged
is extremely
cold (in
lemperotures
less
thon freezing -
Oo
C/32.
F)
it connot occept
o
high
rote of chorge,
so
the initiol chorge rote
will
be slow.'The rote o[ chorge
will
incieose os
fie
boffery worms.
WARNING:
DO NOT
ATTEMPT
TO
CHARGE
A
FROZEN
BATTERY