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Old Mar 24, 2020 | 10:44 AM
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Default Re: Battery maintenance

Originally Posted by pizzaguy
I dont' trust cheap Chinese electronics with my car's sensitive and expensive modules. You all can do what ever you want to, but again, Iv'e been repairing electronics to the component level since 1982 - no cheap assed China-made 'tender' is going to be connected to MY car.
Much as I hate to agree with pizzaguy on anything (HAH, HAH), I don't ever use a battery tender either.

Originally Posted by Jim Holian
I'm curious, why do you disconnect the battery terminal leads while charging or have a maintainer hooked up? I have a CTEK charger/maintainer and it direct's you to just hook up and charge. I have preferred to install the leads that have the eyelets on the battery leads that I have since they fit the small post's on both positive and negative battery lead's. Then when I want to charge or maintain all I have to do is plug in the lead from the CTEK unit to the wired in line's that CTEK furnished. Hope you understand what I'm saying. If you have a CTEK charger/maintainer your familiar with their leads. But again, why would you want to remove the battery cable's when you charge? To my knowledge, all that is necessary is + to + and - to -, plug in the charger and away you go. That way there's no risk of losing any memory caused by a disconnected battery.

Jim
Like Jim stated above, i​​f the car battery needs to be charged from idle sitting, I just hook-up my charger and let it do its thing.
 

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