Battery Maintainers

[Newell52]

Can anyone recommend a good maintainer/charger for winter use on a tractor. When temp drops down my tractor gets weak. Looking for one I can mount by the battery and leave plugged in. If you have one that works well please tell me the brand. Trying to stay away from the cheap Walmart stuff.

 

[Code54]

I have a few of the very cheap Harbor Freight ones (4.99 w/coupon) and been using them for years without issue. Seems to work as well as my name brand far far more expensive one.

 

[PRF]

Love this one:

Amazon.com: Battery Tender 021-0128 Battery Tender Plus 12V Battery Charger: Automotive

 

[JerryK]

Shumacher, amongst others. I have five or six purring out in the barn as we speak... all bought at the Wally.

 

[GGB]

Shumacher, amongst others. I have five or six purring out in the barn as we speak... all bought at the Wally.

I'll also vouch for Schumacher.
https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai...er_id=8175035&catalog_id=10593490497008025839

 

[kennyd]

I own about 4 Battery Tenders, motorcycle's, gator, tractor and whatever all have one. My neighbor bought a HF one, cooked the brand new battery in his generator in a week, no money saved there...

 

[nikdfish]

The junior works fine as a maintainer for standard & deep cycle...

Amazon.com: Battery Tender 021-0123 Battery Tender Junior 12V Battery Charger: Automotive

Nick

 

[sdef]

I have not had any luck with the Schumaker ones from Wal-mart and have cooked a couple batteries as there does not seem to be enough regulation. However I do rely on Schumaker for my starting/fast charging units.

So for the past 5 years or so I have been using Battery Tender and CTEK with 100% reliability. I also would purchase the similar NOCO products.

 

[Labrat]

I have 3 of the shumacher's. I like the fact that they charge and maintain. They were 20 bucks ea at TSC. I still need another one

 

[3930dave]

This is the latest one I've added to my collection. Ctek 3300

CTEK Multi US 3300 - CTEK Battery Chargers

I like that it is compact (relative to output current), very well sealed for outdoor use, and has a cold weather mode that bumps the voltage up (same setting is used for AGM batteries at normal temperatures).

I might not leave it connected for 6 months straight at a time, but I consider it friendly enough to leave connected for long periods at a time.

You can find it on sale for around half of list price. Rgds, D.

P.S. - old thread on Ctek, etc.... :

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/270368-ip65-plug-n-forget-battery.html