[Shop-talk] Battery charger/tender...again

[Ian McFetridge]

Scott,

I used this <http://a.co/11KFt32> one on my M3 for a couple years and never
had an issue.  At the time, I was working in Manhattan and rarely drove the
car (once every two weeks).  Without the tender the battery didn't have
enough juice to start the car, but with the tender it started
everytime...and the battery lasted the whole time.

[image: Deltran Battery Tender (021-0128) 1.25 Amp Battery Charger by
Battery Tender]
Deltran Battery Tender (021-0128) 1.25 Amp Battery Charger
by Battery Tender
Link: http://a.co/11KFt32






YMMV,
Ian

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So we do this every so often, but:
>
> I'm on my x-th Battery Tendr/Mindr. I've bought the big ones, the small
> ones, the Tendr, the Mindr, for cars and for motorcycles.
>
> I'm posting because I bought a new battery for the bike, put it on the new
> charger...and I never got to use it. The battery was fried after a few
> months.
>
> Now the CTS-V needs a new battery. It's got an undersized battery anyway.
> I'll but another one--again, but this time I'd like to hook it to a tender
> that'll at least get me a few years out of the thing.
>
> It's possible it's operator error, I don't know. I hook them up and plug
> them in and...they die.
>
> I wouldn't mind spending on a good unit, and I don't need it to be small
> or microchip-controlled (in fact, I'd prefer if it weren't, maybe--I can
> always just hook a charger up to an old-fashioned timer and let it run an
> hour a day or something), and ideally it'd actually be able to jump a low
> battery while it's in the car, too. But if I can inly have a small unit
> that maintains an otherwise good battery, fine.
>
> Someone recommend to me a decent battery tender that actually works. Or
> tell me what I'm screwing up when I use the things.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
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