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Battery charger

Steve said:
The Battery Tender (a registered trademark) and its little brother, Junior, are both good units, but the Schumacher unit that koolaid_kid and I linked to do exactly the same thing for considerably less money.
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If you absolutely insist on spending more money, though, you can go to Sears and get that same Schumacher unit, but it will now have a "DieHard" label on it and it will cost about $10 more. :-\\\

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If you wait for them to go sale ..then apply ones employee discount... and buy them on a Friends & Family day (10%off) ...They are really affordable and the Craftsman label is no big deal...(I have 3 of them and a Battery Tender Jr and a Schumacher Battery Maintainer - 3 motorcycles, lawn tractor)
 
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BiomedDR said:
I also have an actual 21,015 amp charger for when I want to charge a battery faster.
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Your post has quite a bit more 'snap' this way, doesn't it? Not to mention 'crackle' and 'pop'... :D
 
For those this side of the pond; Lidl and Aldi both offer maintenance chargers for around ?12 / €15. In the last few years I've gathered four of them and leave them dotted around doing duty - not lost a battery because of them, yet. Only drawback is, unlike the CTEK they're based on (CTEK make them for Aldidl) they don't have an auto-resume if mains power fails, but it's no biggie to remember to re-set them.
Prior to that, I was using a normal iron core trickle charger on a timer and current-limiting resistor, which worked well enough, but certainly wasn't fit and forget.
 
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