Volkswagen Polo Service & Repair Manual: Battery, Charging with Battery Charger -VAS5903
| Special tools and workshop equipment
required |
| Battery Charger -VAS5903- |
WARNING
| Risk of injury. Follow all Warnings and Safety
Precautions. Refer to
→ Chapter „Warnings and Safety Precautions“. |
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WARNING
| Batteries that have a light yellow visual indicator
do not have to be tested or charged. Jump starting must
not be used! |
| There is a risk of explosion during testing,
charging or jump starting. |
| These batteries must be replaced. |
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 Note
| The battery temperature must be at least 10 °C (50 °F). |
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Turn off the ignition and all electrical consumers. |
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Plug in the electrical system connector of the charger. The
last selected operation mode is shown on the display. Refer to
→ Chapter „Battery Charger -VAS5903- Device Description“. |
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Select battery type using INFO. |
| The symbol -1- for “standard
charge of wet batteries” or the symbol -2-
for “standard charge of Gel/Absorbant Glass Mat (AGM) batteries”
is indicated in the display. |
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Set the capacity (Ah) of the battery to be charged with the
corresponding button “Up”↑ or “Down”↓. |
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Clamp the red charging clamp “+” to the positive battery
terminal. |
Note
| In the case of vehicles with a start/stop function and an
installed Battery Monitoring Control Module -J367-, the black
charging clamp (-) must be connected to the body ground. The
start/stop system will malfunction if it is connected to the
negative terminal on the battery. |
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Connect the black charging clamp “-” to the negative battery
terminal. |
| The battery charger recognizes the nominal voltage of the
connected battery (6 V, 12 V or 24 V) and begins the charging
process automatically. |
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| At a charge condition of approximately 80 - 85%, charging
unit begins the “Final-charging”. The fourth bar is indicated on
the display -1-. The battery is now
ready to be used. |
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| With a charge status of 100%, all bars are indicated on the
display. |
Note
| With the battery type “standard charge”, parallel operation
of consumers during the charging process is possible. The
charging time is lengthened by this. |
| Depending on battery type, the charger switches over to
sustain charging after approximately 1-7 hours. To achieve a
100% charge status, the battery should remain connected to the
charger for that long. |
| Possible malfunctions and how they are handled: |
| 1 - |
Displayed voltage does not match the nominal voltage: |
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Hold the appropriate button “Up”↑
or “Down”↓ until the charging process
begins. |
| 2 - |
Displayed battery voltage does not match rated voltage -
charging process has already begun: |
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Press START/STOP twice. |
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Hold the appropriate button “Up”↑
or “Down”↓ until the charging process
begins again. |
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The charger does not recognize a battery, when the battery
voltage is less than 2 V: |
| The display remains unchanged. |
| The selected battery type and Ampere hours (Ah) are
displayed. |
| End Battery Charging Process |
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Remove the black charging clamp “-” of the charger from the
negative battery terminal. |
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Remove the red charging clamp “+” of the charger from the
positive battery terminal. |
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Pull out the electrical system connector of the charger. |
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WARNING
Risk of injury. Follow all Warnings and Safety
Precautions. Refer to
→ Chapter „Warnings and ...
Special tools and workshop equipment
required
Battery Charger -VAS5900-
WARNING
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Other materials:
SAFELOCK mechanism
First read and observe the introductory information
and safety warnings
Depending on the vehicle equipment level, the vehicle may have a SAFELOCK mechanism
and an anti-theft alarm .
Function
Action
Locking the vehicle and activating the SAFELOCK mechanis ...
Stowage compartment
on the front passenger side
Fig. 97 Stowage compartment on the front
passenger side
Fig. 98 Open stowage compartment on the
front passenger side
First read and observe the introductory information
and safety warnings
Opening and closing the stowage compartment
To open, pull up the opening lever .
To close ...
CAN Bus Wires, Repairing
Unshielded two-strand wiring -1-
and -2- with a cross section of
0.35 mm2 or 0.5 mm2
can be used as CAN bus wiring.
The color coding of CAN bus wires can be found in the
following table:
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