What's a good trickle charger for our cars?

**cobra259** · 05-02-2011, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by 1MileCrash

the schumacher one...the one with the pic up there...automatically shuts off when the battery reaches full capacity and then cycles back on once it drains down.

So does the Deltrand battery tender. It goes into a storage mode when the bat. reachs full charge. All automatic.

**024mula** · 05-02-2011, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by 35th-ANV-SS

My battery charger automatically shuts down when the battery reaches 100%.

How would a battery charger cook a battery exactly? Just curious.

I'm sorry I have to disagee with you, that a battery charger does not shut down when the battery reaches 100%. A battery charger keeps charging the battery all the time even after the battery fully charged, there for cooking the battery acid dry.

A battery tender, trickles a small amount of charge into the battery and it too can cook a battery but at a very slow rate.

You need a battery tender with float mode in it. Which means that the battery tender will stop trickling a charge to the battery when its full.

I researched battery tenders when I decided to store my car for the winter and spoke to a number of mechanes and battery salesman and this is what they all came up with.

**35th-ANV-SS** · 05-02-2011, 03:24 PM

Maybe mine has that then because I know it shuts off when the battery is fully charged. I have 3 settings on mine; high/med/low.

Guessing low is like a trickle charge (it shows a snowflake). I need to read about it more as I just literally got it as a gift.

**024mula** · 05-02-2011, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by 1MileCrash

the schumacher one...the one with the pic up there...automatically shuts off when the battery reaches full capacity and then cycles back on once it drains down.

Please read the fine print on the box, it has a float mode capablity.