Battery tender question

[jefffrot]

What brand of tender are you guys using? I have a cheap one from HF and it only has the squeeze style clamps. If you have it hard wired what do you do when you want to use the car again? Do you just stash the charger under the hood and drive with it hooked up or do you totally disconnect it? I don't totally stop driving my car in the winter but it can sit for several weeks when the weather is bad so I still need to use the tender.

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[Jmeo]

What brand of tender are you guys using? I have a cheap one from HF and it only has the squeeze style clamps. If you have it hard wired what do you do when you want to use the car again? Do you just stash the charger under the hood and drive with it hooked up or do you totally disconnect it? I don't totally stop driving my car in the winter but it can sit for several weeks when the weather is bad so I still need to use the tender.

Most tenders come with a pigtail that you hard wire to battery and simply unplug from rest of harness so you can remove charger from engine bay leaving the pigtail still connected to battery.

 

[Excelerater]

What brand of tender are you guys using? I have a cheap one from HF and it only has the squeeze style clamps. If you have it hard wired what do you do when you want to use the car again? Do you just stash the charger under the hood and drive with it hooked up or do you totally disconnect it? I don't totally stop driving my car in the winter but it can sit for several weeks when the weather is bad so I still need to use the tender.

I have 6 tenders on several cars and trucks
I have several HF brand ,Schumaker and and a few of the Battery Tender brands
they are all the same,other than the logo they do the same thing and the squeeze clamps are fine .
Only thing I like better about the bigger name brand is the green light telling you its charged however I always check w my
multi meter the voltage .

 

[Sammzway]

Great info here. Question, what is that big loop for on the negative terminal?

 

[GT Pony]

Great info here. Question, what is that big loop for on the negative terminal?

Big loop? BBB's photo show the negative cable removed from the battery post. The cable itself is bolted to the end of the post clamp.

 

[Sammzway]

Big loop? BBB's photo show the negative cable removed from the battery post. The cable itself is bolted to the end of the post clamp.

Never mind lol. Yeah I was confused. Just checked under my hood and realized he was disconnected. Thanks bud.


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[Stage_3]

I just plug mine in,..........and no worries. So easy.
Maintains battery life with no worries of overcharging or undercharging. Awesome unit.

 

[Sammzway]

Does it matter if the charger is 750mAh vs 1.25 amp? What's the recommended amp for our battery?


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[GT Pony]

Does it matter if the charger is 750mAh vs 1.25 amp? What's the recommended amp for our battery?

Doubt it matters. The 1.25 mAH charger will bring the battery up a quicker if it was discharged, but once at full charge they should both keep it at full charge if they are "smart chargers".

 

[BBB]

...this is the way I did it.

can someone confirm if the top wire to the fuse box is a positive? I looked last night and all 3 wires leading to the bolts were red in color so i'm a bit confused

 

[Mustm26]

All three are positive and read 12+ volts and are hot with the ignition off with a meter I connected to a ground bolt.

 

[BBB]

All three are positive and read 12+ volts and are hot with the ignition off with a meter I connected to a ground bolt.

Cool, gonna get it changed today from my connection to the clamps.

 

[Slyfox]

When you hook it to the fuse box terminal do you lose power to the car when taking off the bolt (like radio setting ,computer ,ect)
Thanks

 

[Mustm26]

I did not lose power but I made sure with a screwdriver in one hand the wires already on the terminal continued to make contact with the base after I removed the nut before I attached the charger wire.

 

[S550GTDan]

What about the kind that charge through a 12v outlet in the car? I was thinking of getting one of those so I don't have to touch the battery.

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