<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Great info Don, thank you.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rye</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 28, 2022, at 11:06 AM, Don Hiscock <<a href="mailto:don.hiscock@gmail.com" class="">don.hiscock@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><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 class=""></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" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span id="cid:ii_l9st1q620"><Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 1.03.49 PM.png></span><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><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" class="">ryel@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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;" class="">My son, who is a mechanic, gave me a Milwaukee 18 volt drill and it’s pretty amazing.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><a href="https://www.stoddard.com/pcg35661171.html" target="_blank" class="">https://www.stoddard.com/pcg35661171.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Rye Livingston</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Activities Chairman</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Triumph Travelers Sports Car Club</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">1960 Triumph TR3A</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="float:none;display:inline" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">PH: 530-FIND-RYE</font></span></div></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="float:none;display:inline" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="float:none;display:inline" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">PS: Don’t forget to start planning for Drive Your Triumph Day, 2/10/2023</font></span></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 28, 2022, at 6:50 AM, auprichard <a href="http://uprichard.net/" target="_blank" class="">uprichard.net</a> <<a href="mailto:auprichard@uprichard.net" target="_blank" class="">auprichard@uprichard.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><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" class=""><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">My wife just asked what I wanted on my Christmas list – joy!<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">I’d like to get trickle chargers which I can plug in and forget about when we are away during the winter. What recommendations do you have?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">Also, my cordless drill is old and done: again, any recommendations?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">Andrew Uprichard<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span 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