Posted by Determined on December 11, 2016 at 07:47:31 from (216.130.212.118):
In Reply to: Battery Maintainer posted by farmaller on December 10, 2016 at 19:29:34:
To each there own if they wish to use maintainers.
To answer your question some maintainers will do 6+12 volt some wont so you will need to check the specs before buying.
I have seen this topic come up so many times I thought I would throw my two cents in.
First if I were to run a cord and put a maintainer on every battery on the place the yard would look like a bowl of spaghetti. (40+ batteries)
With the exception of some of the newer electronic equipped vehicles there is no reason to need a maintainer.
Numerous vehicles here sit untouched for 9-10 months and fire right up, if they wont it is because something is wrong and needs to be repaired or replaced.
I commonly store batteries in an unheated shop on an ice cold concrete floor.
Charge them up and let them sit in minus 40 for a week then do a load test on them, 90% pass the test and sit like that all winter ready to be put to use in the spring.
The ones that do not pass are garbage, If they are marginal I put them out to pasture for electric fence duty, with a 20 watt panel hooked up I get 3-4 years more use out of them and they sit outside hooked up all winter long.
Starters are too expensive to wreck with a marginal battery.
Had a 6 volt in my DC-4, after the engine said goodbye it sat outside for 4 years, needed a 6 volt for an old Farmall I was selling, grabbed the one from the case and without even giving it a trickle charge it fired up the old M like a brand new battery.
Now if your charging system is not working and it's not worth the bother to fix it because it for example sees limited use, then by all means put a maintainer on it and you have a cheap fix to get you by.
I have a Case 600 and 444 that the batteries get charged 2-3 times per season for this exact reason.
I am sure someone has a page of science to prove why using a maintainer is the way to go but the results of real life experience can fill a few pages as well.
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