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Re: [Shop-talk] Optima batteries

To: tims_datsun_stuff@outlook.com, shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Optima batteries
From: Dave <dave1massey@cs.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 06:16:50 -0400
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Interesting.  I saw the original but I saw no responses.

I've run Optima batteries for 15 years.  Rarely have I used a charger with a 
specific setting for AGM batteries but then I rarely use an external charger.  
When I do, it is just overnight.  The regulator in the alternator doesn't know 
the difference yet I regularly get 7 - 8 years out of a battery with regular 
driving.

I have used the trickle charger from Horrible Freight for years with good 
results (non-automotive but still AGM batteries) but then there was an 
incidence in Dallas where (apparently) the regulator in the trickle charger 
failed and the resulting accumulation of hydrogen gas ignited causing a fire 
that destroyed the house and two vintage automobiles.  That said I would have 
no problem using a trickle charger but if you are going to leave it unattended 
for an extended period of time I would use a wall wart timer and set it to an 
hour a day.  I'd do the same with any automatic charger.

 

 Back to lurk mode.


Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim . <tims_datsun_stuff@outlook.com>
To: Shop Talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 6:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Optima batteries


too funny...I never saw my OP  but have received two replies.


Anyway, the
replies are 1-1 as far as use a normal trickle or use a specific.


Anyone
else?


Thanks


________________________________
From: Paul Parkanzky
<parkanzky@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 4:49 PM
To: Tim .
Cc: Shop
Talk
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Optima batteries

There is a specific Battery
Tender model for gel-cell batteries.

This is what I use on
mine:

http://www.amazon.com/Battery-Tender-021-0156-Charger-Model/dp/B000NCOKQK/ref
=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439156949&sr=8-1&keywords=battery+tender+plus+gel+cell

-Paul

On
Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Tim
.
wrote:
I've read that you have to have a special charger to charge this type
of
battery but I cannot find that information anymore.


Can I put a Batter
Tender trickle charger on a yellow top?


Thanks


clueless in
WI

tim
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