I just wanted to say I have a battery tender, and I LOVE this product. I permanently keep the post connections mounted to the battery with the quick connect that comes with the tender. They always stay attached to the boat battery and are inside the compartment with my battery. And I permanently keep the battery tender plugged in over night in my garage. When I get home, you just walk up grab each end and connect them overnight. I also keep the battery tender itself inside the garage with the boat outside. If you plug it up every time, your battery will always be fully charged (it has the float charge feature). And it has the light that indicates bulk charge, charge slowing down, or float charging.
And no, I don’t work for them, but I have had several battery chargers and this little $35 thing is such a relief.
pretty neat. how well does it work on the deep cycle recharge?
I use a combo battery for my main battery, and I have yet to have it not completely charged when I wake up in the morning. I am probably gonna buy one of those quick disconnect things to permanently attach to every battery I have. Makes it a breeze. Another good thing is that if you back your boat into your driveway up to your garage like I do, then you can keep the tender unit in the garage and run the connect line under the garage door to the outside, so you can go to sleep and if it sprinkles it doesn’t fry your charger (have lost two other types this way with storms popping up overnight).
pretty neat. how well does it work on the deep cycle recharge?
I use a combo battery for my main battery, and I have yet to have it not completely charged when I wake up in the morning. I am probably gonna buy one of those quick disconnect things to permanently attach to every battery I have. Makes it a breeze. Another good thing is that if you back your boat into your driveway up to your garage like I do, then you can keep the tender unit in the garage and run the connect line under the garage door to the outside, so you can go to sleep and if it sprinkles it doesn’t fry your charger (have lost two other types this way with storms popping up overnight).
Baysport 175
“Short Strike”
it has been added to the ever growing “one more thing i will probably buy” list
good point T, but on board chargers are 4x the price of this thing. where do on board chargers get their power? may be a dumb question. i assume they come on before you go completely dead?
Yeah eventually I would like to have one mounted in each battery compartment, but for now I went with the $30 solution…I have the same question…with the on-board chargers, do you plug those in at home and they build up a charge? And how often do you have to plug those in, etc, etc…