<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Rye, the 8-step charging-maintenance profile shown on that Porsche maintainer looks quite a bit like the one used by CTEK, especially the step 7 fully charged / step 8 long term float. I wouldn't be surprised if CTEK guts were inside the Porsche "battery" packaging. CTEK make maintainers for a number of luxury-performance marques.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><img src="https://www.stoddard.com/media/catalog/product/cache/22b84834e3e8f579eba2d554c4292e65/p/c/pcg-356-611-71-pic8.jpg" width="480" height="490"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_l9st1q620" alt="Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 1.03.49 PM.png" width="562" height="301"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:55 PM Rye Livingston <<a href="mailto:ryel@mac.com">ryel@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">My son, who is a mechanic, gave me a Milwaukee 18 volt drill and it’s pretty amazing.<div><br></div><div>As for a trickle charger, be aware and do your homework as I’ve learned that they aren’t as plug and play as you’d think. A restoration shop I’m using told me even the Battery Tender Junior he’s seen catch fire and burn up the car and the garage it’s in. I now have a timer on the trickle charger so it will cycle on and off every other day. I also have an Airsteam trailer and found out the hard way, not a fire thankfully, that even the charger/converter that came with the trailer when plugged into shore power baked the 2 deep cycle batteries. I was then directed to new unit on Amazon that I installed, that is designed to plug in and leave it for months and months, no issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Back to a battery charger for your car, this one is crazy expensive which I received as a gift from my wife for my Porsche 356. Before using it I checked to see if this was a plug and play for months charger, and it is.</div><div><a href="https://www.stoddard.com/pcg35661171.html" target="_blank">https://www.stoddard.com/pcg35661171.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>So I’ll be watching this topic to see if there are other chargers out there that are safe to leave plugged in for months at a time.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div><br></div><div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Arial">Rye Livingston</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Arial">Activities Chairman</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Arial">Triumph Travelers Sports Car Club</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Arial">1960 Triumph TR3A</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="float:none;display:inline"><font face="Arial">PH: 530-FIND-RYE</font></span></div></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="float:none;display:inline"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="float:none;display:inline"><font face="Arial">PS: Don’t forget to start planning for Drive Your Triumph Day, 2/10/2023</font></span></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 28, 2022, at 6:50 AM, auprichard <a href="http://uprichard.net" target="_blank">uprichard.net</a> <<a href="mailto:auprichard@uprichard.net" target="_blank">auprichard@uprichard.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My wife just asked what I wanted on my Christmas list – joy!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I’d like to get trickle chargers which I can plug in and forget about when we are away during the winter. 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