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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 06:45 PM
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I am putting the vette away for the winter - need a good battery tender to keep it charged for the winter storage. Any suggestions?
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 06:59 PM
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Many people here use the Deltran Battery Tender Plus. I have been using a Die Hard Battery Charger Maintainer for the past severeal years.
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 07:17 PM
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I have a CTEK ModeL US3300.
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 07:40 PM
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black and decker from walmart 15 bucks trouble free 2 years now
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 07:40 PM
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I have a Schumacher 2/10/50 AMP fully automatic starter charger

I paid about 50 bucks for it and its worth every penny
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 07:48 PM
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"harbor freight" has a great tender for less than 10 bucks works great on all my stuff including vettes, ATVs, camper etc. don't let the price fool you. you will get responses that you get what you pay for but this is the real thing...good luck
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 07:55 PM
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Schumacker 1.5 amp maintainer at Wal-Mart $20. I keep 12 batteries on life support for about 6 months each year. I've dropped them, ran over them and forgot to unplug them and they all still work.
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by vettesplus
"harbor freight" has a great tender for less than 10 bucks works great on all my stuff including vettes, ATVs, camper etc. don't let the price fool you. you will get responses that you get what you pay for but this is the real thing...good luck
Have used them on my cars here in Flagstaff(has gotten below zero a couple of winters here) for over four years now and no trouble.
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Originally Posted by vettesplus
"harbor freight" has a great tender for less than 10 bucks works great on all my stuff including vettes, ATVs, camper etc. don't let the price fool you. you will get responses that you get what you pay for but this is the real thing...good luck
What he said. I bought one of these from harbor Freight for $5.97 on sale and it's on the car now and doing great. Wait a minute..........I smell smoke, HOLY CRAP my garage is on fire!!!!! LOL
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Originally Posted by lh4x4
Schumacker 1.5 amp maintainer at Wal-Mart $20. I keep 12 batteries on life support for about 6 months each year. I've dropped them, ran over them and forgot to unplug them and they all still work.
Me too, I have 10 of these going and they work great. Schumacker makes a good product. They are as good or better then anything out there and you can't beat the walmart price.
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Originally Posted by O4-/-C5
I have a CTEK ModeL US3300.
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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 11:31 PM
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I use the CTEK and it works great. Only used it for 2 years, but no problems so far.
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Easygoing
Me too, I have 10 of these going and they work great. Schumacker makes a good product. They are as good or better then anything out there and you can't beat the walmart price.
Well, I don't have ten of them but I do I have two, they do everything they are supposed to!

RonJ ...
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 08:04 AM
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use the "search function". There's about a million threads on this subject.
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Originally Posted by vettesplus
"harbor freight" has a great tender for less than 10 bucks works great on all my stuff including vettes, ATVs, camper etc. don't let the price fool you. you will get responses that you get what you pay for but this is the real thing...good luck

I have 3of them that work great on my Vette.
My brother has two
My other brother has 3
Several club members also use them...

No battery failures, nofloate charger failures...

On sale now for $6.99... at that price their are almost disposable... I say almost .. becasue they work so well why would you throw them away despite the low low price???
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 08:24 AM
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I have been using the Battery Tender on our 2 Vettes for several years and no issues. Works for me!!
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