Yes, but it takes a very, very long time. The charging system on the riding mower is very low amperage. You would do much better charging it with a battery charger.
Battery is either defective or the charging system is not working properly.
If the engine is running and the alternator is good. If the engine is not running, no.
Car batteries recharge themselves while your car is running. However, if your battery is dead, you must jump the battery using a battery jumper box or jumper cables attached to another vehicles's battery.
The LX178 has a stator to recharge the battery. When this goes bad, the voltage regulator indicates no charge being produced. The mower dies do to lack of enough charge to produce a spark. When you recharge, there is enough current to again produce a spark - will run until the battery goes dead again.
Do you mean that you can not charge it with a battery charger or the mower will not charge it while it is running? If you can not charge it with a battery charger and you are sure that the charger works then the battery is bad. These type batteries are only good for a couple years. If the mower is not charging the battery it could be a number of things.
Depending on the mower some have belt driven generator . But most have a alternator under the fly wheel . It might also be a faulty rectifier. Hope this helps.
No, you must have a charged battery for the alternator to work.Here's an explanation of how the charging system works:http://www.ricksfreeautorepairadvice.com/repair-topics/alternator-generator/testing-an-alternator-without-blowing-it-sky-high
The purpose of an Alternator is to periodically recharge the battery while the engine is on.
You ran the battery dead. Jump the car and let it stay running for a while so it can recharge itself
The magnatron is not recharging the battery or the lights are drawing too much power to allow the battery to recharge. The best thing you can do is when you are done riding, turn the lights off and allow the machine to run for a while to recharge that battery.
No, stop charging and replace.
You probably have a bad bearing.