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Battery tender? Looking for recommended
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NancysToy
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Should work fine. I do that with an Optimate or Accumate. Picture in my album, and I think I may have explained it in the Mods section. You need one of the Powerlets to be unswitched (powered all the time) to charge the battery. I have one of each. Powerlet makes an adapter cord to the Battery Tender, too.
I am installing the Evolunize power bus. May seem like a stupid question, but what do you mean and how do you have one unswitched and the other (I assume) would be switched?:helpsmilie:
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I use the Batery Tender Plus and have always had excellent results with it. I like the fact that there is no spark when clamping to the battery terminals. After having a car battery blow up in my face while giving a stranded motorist a jump, I appreciate its no spark technology. I had a Battery Tender Jr that must have "stuck" on constant charge because it boiled the water out of a jet ski battery and ruined it. The company replaced the "JR" charger under warranty but I have yet to use it.
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
I don't really understand. Deb's outlets and mine are in the same place, just below and outside the gauge cluster. I do know that there is room here for either the straight or the 90 degree Powerlets.
The Powerbus is a good idea. I made my own from a fusebox and relay I bought at the auto parts store. The relay with the Powerbus is triggered by the switched accessory circuit on the Spyder. That makes the circuits running off it hot only while the ignition is on...and for about 30 seconds afterward. Keeps you from running down the battery. A battery charger must be connected with the key turned off, so you need to either run to the feed side of the Powerbus, as I did with one of my Powerlets, or directly to the battery with the pigtail included with the Battery Tender .
Sorry for the confusion mix up. I went to you site and looked at your set up without looking at Dltang's again. After looking at both again, I edited my original statement that they were in two different locations. Thanks for the switched and unswitched information. I am having my dealer do the installation and sent him a photo to shwhere they were installed, but your comment probably saved me dollars. That is what I love about this site. I have ridden for over 60 years and hundreds of thousand miles, but am just not mechanically minded.
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