<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="http://m.sears.com/diehard-battery-charger-maintainer/p-02871219000P?sid=IDx01192011x000001&gclid=CKiE3-mD3NECFUpNfgodyr8IHQ&gclsrc=aw.ds">http://m.sears.com/diehard-battery-charger-maintainer/p-02871219000P?sid=IDx01192011x000001&gclid=CKiE3-mD3NECFUpNfgodyr8IHQ&gclsrc=aw.ds</a><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 24, 2017, at 5:01 PM, Scott Hall <<a href="mailto:scott.hall.personal@gmail.com">scott.hall.personal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">So we do this every so often, but:<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>It's possible it's operator error, I don't know. I hook them up and plug them in and...they die.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Someone recommend to me a decent battery tender that actually works. Or tell me what I'm screwing up when I use the things.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div></div>
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