Posted by 550Doug on December 08, 2010 at 12:16:57 from (207.61.115.43):
In Reply to: Battery maintainers posted by jdemaris on December 08, 2010 at 07:33:30:
I went to Northern Tool and picked up a couple of BatteryMinders for around $100 each back in October of 2009. I brought into the garage, 11 batteries from tractors and vehicles and parked a late model Buick inside the garage. Every battery was trickled charged individually before being hooked up in parallel to the BatteryMinder. Each BatteryMinder can desulphate and maintain up to 6 12V batteries if connected in parallel with 18 gauge wire. So the 2 BatteryMinders were set up maintaining the 11 batteries and I used long 12ft leads (18 gauge) to connect the onboard battery in the car so it too was maintained without messing up the security system. I came back from Florida 3 months later and every battery was in top shape. I did have a neighbor periodically check on the setup but he didn't have to touch a thing. So this year I may leave more batteries onboard and just park the tractors close together.
I was under the impression that the onboard units mounted under the hood were for high use vehicles to guarantee a good alternator-battery balance since many high use vehicles (ie taxis, UPS vans, County Roads dept vehicles etc) spend much of their time idling and hence stressing batteries more than the alternator.
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