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

[Jim Juhas]

I have been using Sears/Craftsman chargers, small 2A float units with good results. No mishaps, built in polarity protection so no operator error possible. About 2 years now. $20 to $30 depending on the sale of the moment.
http://m.sears.com/diehard-battery-charger-maintainer/p-02871219000P?sid=IDx01192011x000001&gclid=CKiE3-mD3NECFUpNfgodyr8IHQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

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> On 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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