Ok, let me change that to "they've had a lot of good reviews and a few
negative reviews too" :-)

I have been using a couple of the $20 Schumacher chargers from Wal-Mart. I
haven't checked the charging voltage yet but they appear to do OK. I also
have a Deltran Battery Tender Plus. I have bad batteries in my Ford 8N
tractor and in my forklift, I'm wanting to have good float chargers before
investing in new batteries, I don't like to have to replace batteries every
year on equipment that doesn't get used but a few times per year.

I have been playing with Arduino microcontroller boards working toward
making multi-chemistry battery chargers. If I get it going I plan to have
temperature compensation to keep the batteries at the correct float voltage
year around and perhaps charge the batteries to charge voltage once a day or
so to simulate a car being ran every day. Not sure if it would be
beneficial or not but it doesn't take much effort to try or disable.

RogerN


"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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Yep, that's the culprit. Boiled my battery dry.

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"RogerN" wrote in message
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http://www.harborfreight.com/automat...ger-42292.html
This Harborfreight charger seems to have pretty good reviews, might be
worth
a try for the money. Other than that I've heard the Battery Tender is
good.