The Juicer Battery Tender / Schumacher Companion Charger

[twr1776]

After several years of replacing batteries every other year a co-worker mentioned he had found the Juicer (Bell Brand) charger at Wal Mart for 18 bucks. I also saw it mentioned on another post on this site. It has a 750 mA rate of charge and float mode monitering. I now have them on all of my bikes and have been very pleased to go out to the garage and having the motor crank over as if I have a brand new battery every time. I have wired it direct to the battery terminals and hidden the lead under the rear frame cross member behind the battery so when I get home I pull the lead out and connect it without taking the seat or sidecover off. It normally will take about a minute or less after riding to monitor the battery and go over from the charge to the maintenance mode. This also tells me I have finally gotten the dreaded charging issues out of the way. I also purchased the Schumacher Brand Battery Companion charger at Wal Mart for 18 bucks (1.5 amp rate/float mode monitoring) at the same time for charging my (hopefully last) new battery needed from my previous life without battery maintenance. I now use that on my larger lawn tractor battery to keep it charged. Thanks to all for the many tips on diagnosing and fixing electrical issues.

If you are interested in the wiring route I used to hide the lead PM me and I can let you know how I did it for the L models.

[Can_O_Tuna]

thanks for the tip

[Rich82GS750TZ]

So, I guess the bots are now paraphrasing necro-thread content on the forum. Tell us Coach, which united stat are you from?

[rphillips]

Thanks for this, I'll dig deeper into it to see if it's what I want. I've been looking for a while for tender/ maintainers that turns "Completely Off" when batt. is full charged & only turns back on when batt. loses a little of it's charge, like the on-board charger on my boat or the newer chargers in my garage. So far none I've found turn completely off, they constantly send fractions of mili-volts, not supposed to be enough to harm your batt. but constantly charging.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

rphillips,
post 1 is 15-1/2 years old info. Post 3 appears to be some sort of Bot Spam regurgitation/paraphrasing of post 1. Doesn't invalidate post 1, but……….

[Eli69]

This has happened before. One brought back an ancient post of mine. I wonder what the plan is?

[rphillips]

Oh yeah, that # in top left, that is the date, guess I should have looked.

[phydeauxmutt]

Using a proper charger/maintainer is a decent idea, regardless of date.

[Redman]

rphillips,
post 1 is 15-1/2 years old info. Post 3 appears to be some sort of Bot Spam regurgitation/paraphrasing of post 1. Doesn't invalidate post 1, but……….

Rich, your post is #3
Probably the suspect post #3 has been deleted.

[Redman]

I was thinking “hey Tim twr1776 has made a posting, haven’t heard from time in a long time” . . . Oh, 15 years ago.

(But I think he has those same bikes yet, and more)

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Rich, your post is #3
Probably the suspect post #3 has been deleted.

So it would seem. And no member with the username starting w/ coach (don't remember the whole thing) appears in the member list. Well done, admins.

[bwringer]

LOL, yeah, since then a lot of charging testing and upgrades have happened on Tim's bikes.