In terms of not damaging my motorcycle battery, which must remain
outside but unused this winter, is there a real difference between my
1 amp battery charger that I got used from my 80-year old cousin in
1967 versus the new ones they sell now that say they regulate the
voltage as the battery reaches full charge?

Is there a benefit to me to buy one of the new ones, when the old one
still works fine.

Mine has a a circuit breaker (a little glass thing that looks
something like a small Christmas tree light) that trips when it goes
over 1 amp. It trips every 5 seconds and resets automatically in 2
seconds. But below one amp, it charges at the full rate that can be
squeezed into the battery, declining as the battery becomes fully
charge, but never reaching zero, I think. I have always wondered what
is going on when the battery is fully charged but I'm still charging
it, and that includes a car battery. When cars still had ammeters,
even maybe when the car was idling, but certainly at higher speeds,
there were always 5 amps entering the battery. How come that doesn't
hurt it?

The motorcycle battery is 12 ampere-hours, and since I haven't been
able to get the cycle runnning yet, it will have to be charged maybe
once a month during the winter.

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