Gel Battery Charging Voltage & Trickle Chargers

I have gel batteries on my boat, and I'd like to put a solar trickle charger on the boat to keep them topped up. The lit says the float voltage for these batteries is 13.5-13.8 volts, and maximum charging voltage is 14.4 volts with max charging amps of 10.5. The solar charger I am thinking about has an output voltage of 16 and amps of 0.5 maximum. I know gel batteries are sensitive to voltage. Does anyone know if this will damage my batteries? Thanks, Travis Cal 33-2 "Vital"

in my opinion, Travis; not only have you answered your own question. but the way i see it, you have invested in, and are thinking of investing in even more of the same, top-line expensive hardware. so why stop half-way and put those gel-cell's at risk......... *************************** --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "Travis" <travlin74@...> wrote: > > I have gel batteries on my boat, and I'd like to put a solar trickle > charger on the boat to keep them topped up. The lit says the float > voltage for these batteries is 13.5-13.8 volts, and maximum charging > voltage is 14.4 volts with max charging amps of 10.5. The solar > charger I am thinking about has an output voltage of 16 and amps of > 0.5 maximum. I know gel batteries are sensitive to voltage. Does > anyone know if this will damage my batteries? > Thanks, > Travis > Cal 33-2 "Vital" >