ScottRNelson
Adventure and Dual Sport
For years I've been spreading the word that the Battery Tender brand of chargers are the best ones for motorcycles. However, a guy I know from another motorcycle forum who has an electronics background has been buying battery chargers for years now and testing them to see if he can find one that is better than one that he bought about 20 years ago and is no longer available. He would often voice his frustration about how there was nothing available today that did a decent job of topping up a battery.
But a month or two back he found one that does all of the right things and it's available at a very good price. I bought one recently and have been impressed with how it works compared to my Battery Tender.
Here's a link to where you can order one: http://tinyurl.com/2f9dm8x
Surprisingly, it's available at Walmart. My local store didn't have any in stock, but I ordered one from the above link and had it in less than a week. Total price for me was $21.95 to have it delivered to the closest Walmart store.
It even comes with wiring that you can permanently attach to your motorcycle battery, and it's plug compatible with the ones used by Battery Tender, so if you already have your bike wired up, like I do, you just plug it in.
I hooked my Honda up to my Battery Tender and it indicated that the battery was fully charged, but then I hooked it up to this Schumacher battery charger and it charged it some more to a higher voltage level, which should make it both work better and last longer. And it's the type that you can leave hooked up forever if you want (forever meaning all winter) and it will keep the battery topped off but not overcharge it. It even has built in control logic to detect if it's been hooked up backwards or if the battery is getting too hot. It's almost too good to be true.
So I thought I would share this in case any of the rest of you want to get one before they're out of stock again. You can hardly lose at the price it sells for.
But a month or two back he found one that does all of the right things and it's available at a very good price. I bought one recently and have been impressed with how it works compared to my Battery Tender.
Here's a link to where you can order one: http://tinyurl.com/2f9dm8x
Surprisingly, it's available at Walmart. My local store didn't have any in stock, but I ordered one from the above link and had it in less than a week. Total price for me was $21.95 to have it delivered to the closest Walmart store.
It even comes with wiring that you can permanently attach to your motorcycle battery, and it's plug compatible with the ones used by Battery Tender, so if you already have your bike wired up, like I do, you just plug it in.
I hooked my Honda up to my Battery Tender and it indicated that the battery was fully charged, but then I hooked it up to this Schumacher battery charger and it charged it some more to a higher voltage level, which should make it both work better and last longer. And it's the type that you can leave hooked up forever if you want (forever meaning all winter) and it will keep the battery topped off but not overcharge it. It even has built in control logic to detect if it's been hooked up backwards or if the battery is getting too hot. It's almost too good to be true.
So I thought I would share this in case any of the rest of you want to get one before they're out of stock again. You can hardly lose at the price it sells for.
