Direct-Mount Onboard 12 Volt Charger
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Date: 2021-04-05
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Comments and reviews: 8
Tim
I remove several batteries from boats, four wheelers mowers etc every fall and store them in the house garage where it never has even frozen bottled water sitting on the floor. Usually check them a couple times during winter an will put the charger on them each for a while to keep the atoms bouncing around-lol. I actually just put them all back in their respective places YESTERDAY and started each of them for the summer. In the past I've used little maintainers on the artic cat to keep it ready during the cold hunting season. Good review and really helping this customer by setting them up with the maintainer. Every other shop and thieving dealership in America would have thrown a new battery at it, charged two prices and sent the ride out the door. I just wished there was a guy like this in Amarillo Texas. It's like a disease here as to how much can these shops screw customers over?
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I remove several batteries from boats, four wheelers mowers etc every fall and store them in the house garage where it never has even frozen bottled water sitting on the floor. Usually check them a couple times during winter an will put the charger on them each for a while to keep the atoms bouncing around-lol. I actually just put them all back in their respective places YESTERDAY and started each of them for the summer. In the past I've used little maintainers on the artic cat to keep it ready during the cold hunting season. Good review and really helping this customer by setting them up with the maintainer. Every other shop and thieving dealership in America would have thrown a new battery at it, charged two prices and sent the ride out the door. I just wished there was a guy like this in Amarillo Texas. It's like a disease here as to how much can these shops screw customers over?
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Randy
With the advent of the 'Rona, I had a very similar problem. too many vehicles, not near enough usage. So, I bought a Noco maintainer that looks to me, just like the one you installed. might be a slightly different model because there was a battery type selection process I had to do on initial startup, (it remembers after that. Anyway, permanently installed it in my Lexus, battery in trunk, and I liked it so well, I got another one, but with alligator clips because the boat battery comes out of the boat in the fall and sits on my bench in the garage and it has the big lead posts. Noco says that not only do their chargers maintain voltage, but can also de-sulfonate a battery using some pulsing charge method that I do not really understand, but Noco says it, so it must be true!
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With the advent of the 'Rona, I had a very similar problem. too many vehicles, not near enough usage. So, I bought a Noco maintainer that looks to me, just like the one you installed. might be a slightly different model because there was a battery type selection process I had to do on initial startup, (it remembers after that. Anyway, permanently installed it in my Lexus, battery in trunk, and I liked it so well, I got another one, but with alligator clips because the boat battery comes out of the boat in the fall and sits on my bench in the garage and it has the big lead posts. Noco says that not only do their chargers maintain voltage, but can also de-sulfonate a battery using some pulsing charge method that I do not really understand, but Noco says it, so it must be true!
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autos
2006 MX-5 that is parked every year in the garage from Nov-April. I use a Battery Tender with the ring terminal short cord permanently attached to the car battery and zip tied to a hose nearby. To plug in, I connect the Battery Tender sitting on a shelf with a 25 foot 12V extender cord that connects to the short adapter. Plug in and leave it running for the winter. This method allows you to use a single battery tender on multiple different vehicles by just leaving a ring terminal adapter on each vehicle, rather than a separate charger attached to each vehicle. Or, buy the battery tender model that charges multiple batteries at once if you have multiple vehicles. The battery tender sits in a cabinet the rest of the year, and isn't getting cooked under the hood of the car.
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2006 MX-5 that is parked every year in the garage from Nov-April. I use a Battery Tender with the ring terminal short cord permanently attached to the car battery and zip tied to a hose nearby. To plug in, I connect the Battery Tender sitting on a shelf with a 25 foot 12V extender cord that connects to the short adapter. Plug in and leave it running for the winter. This method allows you to use a single battery tender on multiple different vehicles by just leaving a ring terminal adapter on each vehicle, rather than a separate charger attached to each vehicle. Or, buy the battery tender model that charges multiple batteries at once if you have multiple vehicles. The battery tender sits in a cabinet the rest of the year, and isn't getting cooked under the hood of the car.
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Kyle
I've got a bunch of vehicle and toys and any tender is better than no tender but I like the style that has a temperature module to vary power output based on summer or winter storage. It lowers output in the summer so you don't cook the battery and in the winter it raises voltage to keep batteries topped off in the cold. I've got about six batteries linked together off one for out of vehicle battery storage and in the vehicles that move a few times a winter I've got individual setups with plugs that stick out right by the hood and I leave the tender in plain eyesight so when I'm in the barn I can do a 1 second visual inspection to know it is charged or maintained by the status lights from 30+ feet away.
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I've got a bunch of vehicle and toys and any tender is better than no tender but I like the style that has a temperature module to vary power output based on summer or winter storage. It lowers output in the summer so you don't cook the battery and in the winter it raises voltage to keep batteries topped off in the cold. I've got about six batteries linked together off one for out of vehicle battery storage and in the vehicles that move a few times a winter I've got individual setups with plugs that stick out right by the hood and I leave the tender in plain eyesight so when I'm in the barn I can do a 1 second visual inspection to know it is charged or maintained by the status lights from 30+ feet away.
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Garth
Lots of problems with vehicles and batteries that will sit for a few weeks to months. This is a great idea for those who have a second vehicle that is not the main driver etc. We use Battery Tender fully automatic chargers and leave them plugged in and connected directly to the battery posts. No longer have to go through all of the relearn issues, car alarm honking etc. when the volts are low enough to mess up the computer system that is not smart enough to function with lower volts. Not only that, the battery will last much longer.
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Lots of problems with vehicles and batteries that will sit for a few weeks to months. This is a great idea for those who have a second vehicle that is not the main driver etc. We use Battery Tender fully automatic chargers and leave them plugged in and connected directly to the battery posts. No longer have to go through all of the relearn issues, car alarm honking etc. when the volts are low enough to mess up the computer system that is not smart enough to function with lower volts. Not only that, the battery will last much longer.
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richard
i've wired all my vehicles with a piece of 2 wire. put a fuse on at the battery positive(in case it shorts out or rubs through) and a two prong plug you find in the towing section. zip tied under the grille or bumper. then i can use one maintainer that dont bounce around going down the road. on whatever vehicle i need at a time. i adderd a length on my maintainer and mounted it just inside the garage with the two prong plug that matches the other half on the vehicle.
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i've wired all my vehicles with a piece of 2 wire. put a fuse on at the battery positive(in case it shorts out or rubs through) and a two prong plug you find in the towing section. zip tied under the grille or bumper. then i can use one maintainer that dont bounce around going down the road. on whatever vehicle i need at a time. i adderd a length on my maintainer and mounted it just inside the garage with the two prong plug that matches the other half on the vehicle.
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Gary
Just an observation. Why modify the plastic cover when you could have connected the red and black on the engine side of the battery like the existing red and black wires. The Battery tender would be out of the way when the terminal lugs were removed and it would not be going across the battery under the cover. Now to remove the battery cover you have to disconnect the tender wires. possibly convoluted tubing and some tape? As always great video.
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Just an observation. Why modify the plastic cover when you could have connected the red and black on the engine side of the battery like the existing red and black wires. The Battery tender would be out of the way when the terminal lugs were removed and it would not be going across the battery under the cover. Now to remove the battery cover you have to disconnect the tender wires. possibly convoluted tubing and some tape? As always great video.
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Old
I use the screw down battery disconnects on my old vehicles. Yeah, only the radio needs resetting, not a big deal, hit scan and listen to whatever comes up. Amazing how many batteries there are in my life now. somethings always charging or needing charging, drills, e-bike, cars, mowers, vape, flashlights. phone. emergency back up. smoke alarm, indoor/outdoor thermometer, it goes on and on. Life use to be so simple, what happened?
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I use the screw down battery disconnects on my old vehicles. Yeah, only the radio needs resetting, not a big deal, hit scan and listen to whatever comes up. Amazing how many batteries there are in my life now. somethings always charging or needing charging, drills, e-bike, cars, mowers, vape, flashlights. phone. emergency back up. smoke alarm, indoor/outdoor thermometer, it goes on and on. Life use to be so simple, what happened?
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