Battery Charging and Maintenance

We all know that proper maintenance is key to maintaining value and long-term usage of your vehicle. While your car or motorcycle’s battery is just a small, and relatively inexpensive, component to your vehicle, proper battery maintenance ensures that you’re vehicle works when you need it to. As such, utilizing a good battery charger can be a great way to handle battery maintenance. Not only is it cost effective but it helps maintain the life of your battery, which means fewer replacements and less hassles with your vehicle not starting at an inconvenient time (and really, when is it convenient for your car or motorcycle not to start?)

Of course, a quality battery charger is not cheap, but the same can be said for the batteries themselves. The bottom line is this: a battery that is maintained well will deliver many more years of service for your car, motorcycle or atv. In fact, when used correctly, battery chargers can double or triple the useful life of your batteries. How about that for some good information? Everyone should have one of these!

Battery Tender chargers have the most versatility. This brand of battery chargers are designed to fully charge and maintain lots of different types of lead acid batteries. As a result, they avoid the potential damaging effects that can be caused by most trickle chargers.

Key Benefits of Battery Tender Chargers

• Lightweight, easily transportable and very compact.
• Completely automatic and are controlled by a microprocessor.
• To ensure optimum charge voltage, they are temperature adjusted according to the ambient temperature.
• Automatically monitors battery so you don’t have to worry. It will then switch from charging to storage mode, and will provide a visual indication of the charge state.
• Destructive Sulfation is almost a non-issue because they maintain the charge at the optimum float voltage.
• Equipped with a variety of safety features including reverse polarity protection and continuous short circuit protection.
• Spark free operation.
• Spark Interconnection options include: alligator clips, fused ring terminals, cigarette lighter adapter and quick disconnect DC output cable harness.

If you don’t have a battery charger yet for your vehicle now may be the time to get one. They have a number of advantages and can save you money in the long term. They also have a variety of different features that can make them very easy to use and helpful for many different types of charging applications, including ones appropriate for your marine or ATV battery