You know I had that particular brand name and I honestly don't know what happened to it but that really did work well and then after that broke like say 10 years ago I bought this $20 battery charger it's a very small unit it's probably cheaply made but it actually works
Lawn mower battery struggles
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eagle86801
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I use a solar powered trickle charger I leave on all winter Dec to April . Once or twice a month I start the lawn mower and run it for 5 minutes . My batteries, Die Hard, last at least 4 or 5 years they cost more but do last longer . Trickle charger I bought at Harbor Freight for $20 8 or 9 years ago,
I read that the US Navy did a study and found that the temperature difference between different parts of a lead acid battery causes a small current to flow internally. With this in mind, if I store a battery on concrete floor I always put it on a piece of wood so the floor doesnt cool the bottom of the battery so much.
Yes , I got tired of buying good batteries. This year I tired of battery problems, where I store my machines does not have electric. I bought a 12V solar panel for $45, magnetic mounted, to put on one shed. The panel just pulls off to locate some other place. It also can be mounted on an automoble. This spring the mower started right up no problems. Also to stop 90% of fuel problems I use a Marine fuel conditioner, all year, people that use a conditioner also have no problems.
This sounds very cool nice find.
Monty just curious how do you use this you always keep your say riding mower or whatever attached to it during the summer?
Gord Baker
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It is my understanding that a Battery Tender only charges a tiny amp/hr to the Battery and shuts off when the Battery is fully charged. I use one on my 2008 XLR which has multiple parasitic drains and it performed as it should during the Winter. The unit has a small green indicator light.Listen to all the above advise - its good.
I have never heard of a "battery tender" - do you mean trickle charger?
I have no less than four battery chargers (diffrent amp's). All of them go to trickle/standby charge, once the battery gets fully toped up.
I never leave my batteries on charge for more than 48 hrs - usually just overnight.
I get cranky if a battery only lasts 5 years - my best to date was 9 years.
Not to mention that using the mower engine to charge a near dead battery can damage the mower's charging system. Usually, on a Briggs, it will melt the stator ring.
A couple years ago I bought a NOCO Genius1 charger described as an "automatic maintainer, trickle charger & desulfator with overcharge protection & temperature compensation for lead acid & lithium batteries." It's like a $30 item. I'm an electrical engineer and I don't know enough about batteries to understand what this thing does or exactly how to use it. Based on my bad luck with batteries, over the winter I disconnect my battery, store it in my basement and connect this charger a few times for a couple days. During the mowing season I'll use it periodically. It's too early to tell whether it will pay off but just this week I reconnected the battery to the mower after first installing this battery disconnect switch to the negative terminal. I wonder if the charger and disconnect switch would allow me to leave the battery in the mower over the winter since removing my battery is a royal pain because I have to move a hydraulic fluid tank out of the way to get to the battery.