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Battery Maintainer

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Fawteen

06-03-2007 10:33:44




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I don't drive my 4 wheeler enough to keep the battery up on it. Thinking I need to put a battery maintainer on it, either corded or solar. Any recommendations?




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Aaron Ford

06-06-2007 06:26:07




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to Fawteen, 06-03-2007 10:33:44  
Battery Tender is a good brand. Comes with alligator clips and a quick disconnect lead so you can mount the pigtail permanent and have the lead run out where it is convenient. I am currently using a Schumacher 1.5a unit from Walmart and it seems to work well. It comes with the otional harness as well. No problems so far.

Aaron



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Charles (in GA)

06-03-2007 16:20:01




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to Fawteen, 06-03-2007 10:33:44  
Have a basic maintainer on a 10K generator in a community well house. Battery had a cell short and the maintainer went ape trying to charge the battery. gassed the battery real bad, filled the well house with fumes. After installing a new battery, I installed a simple lamp timer like you use when you go on vacation. Set it to be on 30 mins a day, off the rest of the time. In 30 mins it has pleanty of time to top off the battery, but cannot do any harm. Has worked good for several years now.

Next one I buy will have desulfater capability.

Charles

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Jim in N M

06-03-2007 12:47:17




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to Fawteen, 06-03-2007 10:33:44  
Hey fawteen, I've used as many as six on differant batterys, all winter and been gone for up to six months at a time, NEVER had one problem. I even hooked 1 unit to two batterys on jet skis and no problem. Just get good ones. Jim in N M



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ken in texas

06-03-2007 12:39:56




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to Fawteen, 06-03-2007 10:33:44  
I have seen batteries boiled dry and ruined when using maintainers, so check the fluid on a regular basis.



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dan hill

06-06-2007 02:47:18




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to ken in texas, 06-03-2007 12:39:56  
Using these cheap chargers is risky.A lightning strike on the power line can short the diodes and start a fire.Use a solar panel,costs more but wont burn up equipment.



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Mark/Ks

06-03-2007 11:51:21




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to Fawteen, 06-03-2007 10:33:44  
Do not buy the one from Harbor Freight. I bought two last winter. When it was time to fire them up for spring the battiers were totally dead!!!!



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Gary Schafer

06-03-2007 21:19:36




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to Mark/Ks, 06-03-2007 11:51:21  
I had 4 or 5 of the harbor freight units on all winter and all worked just fine. These were the little ones you get for from $4.95 to $15.00.
You must have a fully charged battery BEFORE you put the float charger on as it is not big enough to charge a low battery. Also the battery must be in good condition in the first place or it will not float as it should. Otherwise they work just fine as they float the voltage at 13.4 to 13.6 volts which is exactly what lead acid batteries like. You can float them Indefinitely at that voltage and it will not harm the battery.

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Gary

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Jon Hagen

06-03-2007 11:23:59




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 Re: Battery Maintainer in reply to Fawteen, 06-03-2007 10:33:44  
BatteryMINDer sold by Northern tool will charge/desulphate/maintain your battery and come in solar or 120v power. I have two that work great to maintain the batteries in my seasonal use machines.



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