Battery Tender Plus or Supercharger, Battery Float Charger

 30Nov2006
Re: Motorcycle float charger / maintainer

With so many electronic and battery knowledgeable people out there in
cyberland, hopefully I can get a little advice and direction on a
motorcycle battery charger / maintainer.  Aside from the price
difference, which float charger would a battery wizz purchase, and why?
  (size of charger, preference?  - Being each has a couple models to
choose from)

The Battery Tender Plus by Deltran
     http://batterytender.com/default.php?cPath _2
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SuperCharger by ACI
     http://www.acichargers.com/Product%20Specs.htm

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 wrote:


    This company

http://www.odysseyfactory.com/odyapps.htm

specifically says 'warranty void if 'Battery Tender' used, use ACI
instead.  I forget WHERE I saw that, but I did.  They didn't say why.

Oh, here it is - about 1/2 way down

http://www.kz1300.com/techarticles/z1300-hawker-odyssey-battery.html


Then I looked at the ACI line, and saw I could get 7 A's of charging
instead of  1 - 3 A , in a similar size package for similar price.



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My motorcycle batteries never really lasted more than a year.
The generator (house) didn't last for more than year either.
My BMW (cage) has a slow drain.

I have the batterytender on all of them, my motorcycle battery is on year 4
generator on year 3
BMW stays charged



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I've used a Deltran battery tender JR on my 2000 R1100R and my 2004 R1150R.
Neither bike have a lot of gizmos that drain the battery.  I plug it in for
12 hours or so once a month during the cold Minnesota winter and I've never
had an issue.   That said, it is not recommended for the gel battery in my
'04, Deltran recommeds a BMW-specific tender for the newer BMW's.

 Actually what I read, is the warrantee changes depending on geographic
location and to check with the representative in YOUR area? That doesn't
make sense at all,and I'm not sure it's even legal.That said,how would
they even know whether you used a BT or any other charger? I know many
people on my Concours and NH groups that have the PC batteries and use
BT's with no problem. But what do I know,I retired at 45.