globalrider
Alps Adventurer
It's what it says. Racist & narrow minded IMO.
Actually, since 1983 (that is 33 years now) I've owned Japanense cars for 26 of them as well as quite a few Japanense motorcycles. So before you go shooting off you stupid mouth in usual fashion, its good to get your FACTS straight, but since you don't have any here are some on battery chargers. I hope it doesn't hurt your narrow minded brain.
As for my avatar, its a joke and funny when you look at the old man waving his hands.
But what did my avatar have anything to do with battery charging and battery chargers? You went off topic shooting from the hip for whatever reason, probably insecurity issues.
But lets get back on topic and talk about product evaluations be it here, any forum and even the ON. The vast majority of consumers are clueless. "my charger is great" It is? Based on what? I am never going to tell you my Optimate or CTEK are "great" and neither are any others at that price point. But they are better than not using a battery maintainer at all.
Then there is that utterly useless voltage monitor with LEDs of different colors...supposedly to tell you if your charging system is working well or not. The thing is a piece of garbage and incredibly the manufacturer knows nothing about vehicle charging.
Why does Battery Tender or CTEK not produce specs that actually mean something.
Here is the one from CTEK. A voltage axis with no values...how effing useful is that?
And this is what it actually does. Once fully charged, it simply turns on and off and repeats. This is not a "pulse" as claimed, not that it matters.
And the Optimate actually has a float mode...
One clown on another forum started a thread "The Last Battery Charger You'll Ever Buy". I mean, these things are like all those weight reducing exercise equipment in our still obese society. Cool looking charger, fancy colors and it even performed a "load" test. Wow a load test...at a whopping 20W or less than 2 amps, how useless is that? I do my load tests at 1/2 the CCA of the battery, a pretty much accepted method...not at 2 amps. LOL
And these battery testers that tell you what the CCA and the Ah are in a snap. Those are conductance testers and I've used them. They never produce the same values as a real load and capacity test and sometimes, they aren't even close.
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