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Battery Tender Plus ...................... Dead
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Start a pile with your smoke detector!You might want to do a more thorough check around!!
Oh, I like that! I agree. Time to update things.
lee
Debbie's Servant
Dang - pretty darn good for something electronic!! I'm trying to think of anything that I even own that is that old...
My wife has something much older.
Me
Hope she doesn't throw me out because I'm older than the Use By date
36654
New member
That's taken care of. But, I appreciate the concern
36654
New member
Don't say that. That's the charger for the car.
36654
New member
My wife has something much older.
Me
Hope she doesn't throw me out because I'm older than the Use By date
I was so excited by the spiffy electrical socket on my '86 K75, the charger was my first farkle for that bike.
Those crazy days when I was 26 and only spent money on my motorcycle....
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fmdualexhaust
Member
I have 3 now. The oldest is well over 20 years.
The lights are a little fussy but it still charges reliably.
The lights are a little fussy but it still charges reliably.
lee
Debbie's Servant
Our 1987 K75 bikes each came with a charger from BMW.
I sold one and still used the other on my mower in the winter up until two years ago.
pglaves
#13338
In 1966 I owned a Simca, a French car for which parts were few and far between. And as a fresh recruit in the Air Force I certainly couldn't afford to get a new generator from France. It was a two mile or so drive from our apartment to the Air Force radar site where I was stationed.
So lacking a charging system in the car I went to Sears and bought a 6 amp battery charger and mounted it under the hood on the firewall. I would drive to work, and later home again. Then I would plug in the charger over night. Repeat every day for about 6 months until I sold the car as-is. Until last year that charger was still working. It was in the garage at our son's house in Kansas and "mud dauber" wasps decided it was the perfect place to make a home. I found it 90% full of wasp-condo mud. After I cleaned it out as best I could it wouldn't work. Thus it died at 53 years of age. I do still have the 3 amp BMW charger I got back in the '80s.
So lacking a charging system in the car I went to Sears and bought a 6 amp battery charger and mounted it under the hood on the firewall. I would drive to work, and later home again. Then I would plug in the charger over night. Repeat every day for about 6 months until I sold the car as-is. Until last year that charger was still working. It was in the garage at our son's house in Kansas and "mud dauber" wasps decided it was the perfect place to make a home. I found it 90% full of wasp-condo mud. After I cleaned it out as best I could it wouldn't work. Thus it died at 53 years of age. I do still have the 3 amp BMW charger I got back in the '80s.
36654
New member
I "borrowed" Dad's early 1970's Sears 10/2-amp charger when I took my first job out of college. On the rare occasion I need a 10A charger, it still works. It has a special spot, just above the motor oil in the cabinet.
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My Battery Tender Plus is worse than dead I think, when you plug it in the red light starts flashing when you hook it to battery the light goes to solid red than it just keeps charging, it never goes green or the flashing green. I have two of the Battery Tender + chargers I can take the good one off a battery after it has gone to the green float mode put the other one it goes red and stays red on a charged battery. If I reverse process and take bad one off a charged battery, with light still red and put good one on the red light comes on for a short while than goes to green like it is supposed to.
I assume that the .75 amp (might be 1.25 amp ) charge can overcharge and damage a battery given enough time.
It would be much easier to toss it in the recycle pile if it did not work at All.
My Battery Tender Plus is worse than dead I think, when you plug it in the red light starts flashing when you hook it to battery the light goes to solid red than it just keeps charging, it never goes green or the flashing green. I have two of the Battery Tender + chargers I can take the good one off a battery after it has gone to the green float mode put the other one it goes red and stays red on a charged battery. If I reverse process and take bad one off a charged battery, with light still red and put good one on the red light comes on for a short while than goes to green like it is supposed to.
I assume that the .75 amp (might be 1.25 amp ) charge can overcharge and damage a battery given enough time.
It would be much easier to toss it in the recycle pile if it did not work at All.
gregfeeler
Dances With Sheep
36654
New member
My Battery Tender Plus is worse than dead I think, when you plug it in the red light starts flashing when you hook it to battery the light goes to solid red than it just keeps charging, it never goes green or the flashing green. I have two of the Battery Tender + chargers I can take the good one off a battery after it has gone to the green float mode put the other one it goes red and stays red on a charged battery. If I reverse process and take bad one off a charged battery, with light still red and put good one on the red light comes on for a short while than goes to green like it is supposed to.
I assume that the .75 amp (might be 1.25 amp ) charge can overcharge and damage a battery given enough time.
It would be much easier to toss it in the recycle pile if it did not work at All.
I think I can do the same brinking light exercise with my Battery Tender. Off/on and disconnect/connect yields a revolving set of solid or blinking lights.
I'm pretty sure it's little brain is shot.....
