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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Yep, like Jerry said, buy one that's made for that purpose. )</font>

I do what Jerry and Bird said.
An alternative is to put your trickle charger on a 24 hour timer (if you have one laying around) and set it to come on for an hour a day. If you don't have a timer, I would buy the tender instead.