Best method for maintaining engine batteries.

Sam Spade wrote:

Bobbo wrote:
A trickle charger is more than enough for my needs.

BUT....a true trickle charger is ***NOT*** a good thing to recommend to the general population for continuous use over long periods.

If the thing you are recommending is really "smart" and reduces the voltage when a certain threshold is achieved, then it is NOT a trickle charger and you should not be referring to it as such.

It is not the trickle charger's function to reduce the voltage. That is the converter's job.

Don't forget that this particular trickle charger monitor's the chassis battery's state of charge, and if fully charged, turns itself off.

LSLProducts wrote:
HOW IT WORKS — TRIK-LSTART™
diverts current from
your house battery charger or
power converter, sending it to
the starting battery. In effect, it
"siphons off" some of the
charging current that would
normally go to your house
batteries, instead using it to keep
the starting battery fully
charged. A built-in regulator
circuit automatically limits
maximum charge current to a
safe rate. As a full charge is
reached, this current drops off to
a small trickle.