Tips - Charging Riding Mower Battery

The following steps will walk you through recharging the 12v battery on the riding mower. The steps assumes everything works correctly. If you run into problems, the battery charger user guide is in the large House Manuals binder, or you can see it online here.

• Park the mower near a power outlet, and make sure it's turned off. Presumably you'll be using a power outlet in the garage, although any will do. (There's an outlet in the pumphouse if needed.)
  
• Uncover the 12V battery by pushing the top of the seat forward towards the steering wheel.
  
• Looking down at the top of the battery you'll see a black wire going to the uncovered negative terminal, and a red wire going to the (red) covered positive terminal. Carefully remove the red cover to expose the positive terminal - as shown in the pic.
  
• Grab the small black cardboard box that contains the NOCO Genius1 battery charger. It should be in the cage in the garage - as shown in the pic.
  
• Open the box and remove the charger. It should look like the pic.
  
• Attach the black clamp to the black negative terminal. Attach the red clamp to the red positive terminal. It should look like the pic.
  
• Now plug the "other" end of the charger into an outlet. In the pic to the right I've plugged it into an extension cord, which is then plugged into an outlet.
  
• The left-most 12V "mode" indicator should light ... in the pic it's the very bright white light. Also, the square "charge led" should show red, as seen in the pic. This charge led will slowly pulse red on and off when the battery is less than 75% charged. When it starts pulsing green, then the battery is almost charged. When it's solid green the battery is fully charged. The charger will not over-charge the battery, so it's ok to leave it charging overnight.
  
• Once the battery is charged the charge led will be green. Unhook the charger in the reverse of the hookup order:
  • Unplug the charger from the outlet (or extension cord)
  • Detach the red clamp from the positive battery terminal
  • Detach the black clamp from the negitive battery terminal
  
  
• Put the red cap back over the positive battery terminal, then lower the seat back down again.
  
• Pack up the battery charger into its black box, and put the box back in the cage.