Trickle Charger recommendations...

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Re: Trickle Charger recommendations...

Postby manga_blue » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:42 pm

Both the ECU and the radio draw a small stay-alive charge. This will drain the average battery in 1 to 4 weeks, depending on the state of the battery. Disconnecting it typically extends that to two to six months. Nine months is pretty amazing, Skinny Jim.

I've got a Haigh multi-stage charger and it's been good but TBH it's usually much faster just to disconnect the battery than it is to find the charger, plug it in, connect it and set it to charge.
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Re: Trickle Charger recommendations...

Postby Skinny Jim » Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:08 pm

9 months is pretty good phil but i spose it was a fresh battery to begin with. one of those cheapo fullriver things, kinda like the cheap ass verswion of the odyssey

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Re: Trickle Charger recommendations...

Postby miatas76 » Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:19 am

CTek is in!! Great unit and doing it's job fantastically already!!
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Re: Trickle Charger recommendations...

Postby KevGoat » Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:43 am

miatas76 wrote:No, no, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.


Just set the year for '92 and enjoy your shiny new NA :mrgreen:


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