what kind of car battery charger should I get (2010, plugs, buy)
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I have 2 cars, a 2009 Fit and a 2010 Elantra. Yesterday the Elantra's battery was drained. Probably too many short trips plus I left the trunk open a smidge. I jumped it with the Fit and it started right back up and left it idling for 30 minutes. I have heard a trickle charger or the like might be a good idea. What should I get? I am not looking to spend a lot of money.
I have 2 cars, a 2009 Fit and a 2010 Elantra. Yesterday the Elantra's battery was drained. Probably too many short trips plus I left the trunk open a smidge. I jumped it with the Fit and it started right back up and left it idling for 30 minutes. I have heard a trickle charger or the like might be a good idea. What should I get? I am not looking to spend a lot of money.
Most any trickle charger will do. I keep one hooked up to my Land Cruiser because we rarely drive it anymore and we were having dead battery issues. The trickle charger fixed all of that. For features, I like one that shows percent charged.
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Most any trickle charger will do. For features, I like one that shows percent charged.
Uhuh, it says "most'"...
Cheap ones are not good for charging at all, so be careful what you use.
The ones with the gauge (showing percentage of capacity), are probably also rated as trickle chargers!
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Thought there was an extensive thread on this not long ago.
Battery Tender have never failed me, in more than twenty years. Probably thirty. I bought a double as a permanent mount ten years ago. That is on a post in my garage, a structural beam in the center. I always have a car that doesn't move often on one terminal, and a bike on the other. SAE plugs. I get crazy duration out of batteries this way, so it works and pays for itself in non-replaced batteries every few years.
Battery Tender has a lot of options these days, per the website. Should I need to buy again I'd consider my use case quite carefully. The cheap singles served me well from college until ten years ago, too, almost always for just bikes.
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