profdant139 wrote:
Mex and I differ on the meaning of boondocking. When I spend about 60 days a year in remote country, that is boondocking to me. If I need to spend a year at a time, that is not boondocking. That is survival off the grid. What I do is a hobby, a vacation. Off grid survival is a business. If my life depended on the life of my batteries, I would be as scientific as Mex is.
And Fubeca, I am quite sure that if the BatteryMinder Plus were a hoax, a trial lawyer would have been contacted by a tech-savvy client and would have brought suit. No one has done so. Absence of evidence is not always evidence of absence, but in this case it just might be.
Excellent comments! I agree on your definition of "boondocking" ... except for any particular length of time being required. We sometimes drycamp in remote country for only 1-2 days. I call that hit-and-run boondocking. However, our "remote country" is usually desert - not the real stuff that you camp in.
Regarding BatteryMINDer Plus battery maintainers:
I've used the same one for years to maintain our motorhome's main engine starting battery. I'm only recently on my 3rd starting battery in nearly 11 years of owning our rig. I recently picked up another one to maintain the small AGM batteries in my garden sprayer and backup residence generator.
By the way, I've watched what a BatteryMINDer's "pulsing" is all about when it's maintaining a battery. It's not outputting medium-to-high frequency square wave pulses as might be implied or as some might think - which indeed might be fluvy-dust technology - as a storage battery's electro-chemistry can't respond to high speed voltage or current changes. What the BatteryMINDer is doing - at least according to my digital voltmeter - is slowly varying it's voltage output up and down. The rate of change is slow enough for it to perhaps have some affect on a battery's electro-chemistry. It's my guess that some beneficial affects from this behavior may be what BatteryMINDer marketing may be referring to. :h
