Battery Chargers

[suggs]

looking at getting a smart charger to keep the battery topped up now winters coming in and bikes getting used less.

so any recommendations on what one, theres a few on the bay such as the optima 4 and the Oxford 9000 etc..


cheers

[and]

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[silky666]

[the grim reaper]

The only problem with Optimates is that they hold the battery voltage at too high a level and cause the plates to sulphate. This eventually kills the battery. As far as the affordable chargers are concerned, it's one of the better ones but a decent float battery charger would be a better bet.

Something like this:

Float Charger

Cheers

Grim
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[The Tot]

That float charger looks very similar to the Bikeit halfords 2-4A charger that I've got. It does a good job of conditioning the battery in the winter. I got it off ebay for 20 quid.
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[Dr. DaveJPS]

i have one of these, https://www.acumen-electronics.co.uk/product/DUO_Platinum_Charger_20119
and find it works well enough for my purposes of keeping the KTM able to start.
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