Peteoz
Well-known member
For those of you running a Neutrino, this may be of interest…..
I never use a battery maintainer as I ride at least once a week and have never found the need.
However, I was recently unable to ride for a month, hopped on the RT…..dead. I dusted off the maintainer, connected it, and all OK the next morning……….but……..
I realised that my Garmin had not auto started……bugger…….loose connection? I’ll check when I get home. Then I realised that my phone was not charging either……hmmmmm? They are both connected via the Neutrino. I then checked the Neutrino, and sure enough, all the connections were electronically switched off. Obviously the Neutrino must lose this info when the battery goes flat, meaning it must have a minute draw on the battery to maintain the settings. Whether this was the cause of the flat battery, or whether something else flattened the battery with the loss of Neutrino settings being a result, I don’t know.
Regardless, I will be putting the RT on a maintainer if it is sitting for more than a couple of weeks in future.
Please don’t turn this into a “maintainer yes or no” war……that is not the purpose of this post. It is more of interest to Neutrino users .:thumbup:
Pete
I never use a battery maintainer as I ride at least once a week and have never found the need.
However, I was recently unable to ride for a month, hopped on the RT…..dead. I dusted off the maintainer, connected it, and all OK the next morning……….but……..
I realised that my Garmin had not auto started……bugger…….loose connection? I’ll check when I get home. Then I realised that my phone was not charging either……hmmmmm? They are both connected via the Neutrino. I then checked the Neutrino, and sure enough, all the connections were electronically switched off. Obviously the Neutrino must lose this info when the battery goes flat, meaning it must have a minute draw on the battery to maintain the settings. Whether this was the cause of the flat battery, or whether something else flattened the battery with the loss of Neutrino settings being a result, I don’t know.
Regardless, I will be putting the RT on a maintainer if it is sitting for more than a couple of weeks in future.
Please don’t turn this into a “maintainer yes or no” war……that is not the purpose of this post. It is more of interest to Neutrino users .:thumbup:
Pete