Battery Tender plus failures???

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

I have Paul's old Deltran and I bought another work fine. Both are hooked up to gel cells.

The one I gave you may have been USA made...glad it's giving you good service. The replacement I bought is probably Chinese made...that may explain some of the problems people are having?

[911pcars]

Originally Posted by vash

my friend screwed one of those lightbulb socket adapters into the lightbulb fixture of his garage door opener. he then put the bulb back, and plugs an extension cord into the socket part. ran it down the wall to his regular battery charge that is hooked to his hotrod. every time the garage door opens, the light circuit gets energized, which in turns powers the charger. he has been doing this for years.

when he needs a charger, he unplugges it and and uses it on the dead battery. when done he puts it back onto the hotrod and plugs it back into his garage door opener.

this only works with an active garage door. his wife is always coming and going. it works perfectly. i would do this, but my garage door lightbulb circuit is not functioning.

A regular $8 outlet timer does the same thing and is wife-independent. Noah, it can share the same AC circuit as your portable defribrillator pack or EKG machine in the garage,yes?

I too use a HF battery maintainer. Seems like HF uses several sources for them. The one I have (NLA) is a 3x6x2" olive green rectangular box with a recessed jack to plug in a 110V extension cord. Thus far, has worked fine for about 4 years (about $12).

Sherwood

[dar636]

I have used the same Battery Tender for 5 years on my airplane, 28v unit, no problems at all.

I do like the garage door light idea though.

[EarlyPorsche]

Seriously look at rizk chargers. They are heavy and us made.