HI Chuck: I suggest that you look at the reviews by purchasers of that device - when I looked they were not very good and I settled for a more expensive Deltran battery maintainer which does the job well. If I have used the battery a lot and it is depleted, I use a Minn Kota 10 amp charger first although the little Deltran will bring it up to full power after a few days. Deltran does make a waterproof charger for boat installation which is more $. I would not use the Habor freight in the rain or even my Deltran.
Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver BC Canada > On Dec 16, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Chuck Alexander <chuckalexan...@centurylink.net> > wrote: > > Folks: This coming Spring (barring more health problems etc) my wife and I > plan to go fishing at LEAST a cpl times per week. My question is about a > trickle charger for my deep cycle battery I use to power my trolling motors > (we use two to get to where across the lake and back,then the foot controlled > one to troll the shoreline hunting for bluegills and/or bass “on the bed”. > Anyway,, till now, I have to heft my 50-60 pound battery into my workshop, > put it on the 2 amp setting on my 2/6/55/jumpstart big battery charger, then > lug it back into the back of the boat to go fishing again. It’s been either > that, or risking the charger getting rained on and ruined, or electrocuting > somebody. Anyway, this charger from Harbor freight in the hyperlink below is > a 3/4 amp trickle charger/maintainer. > > What I’m wondering is (even if it takes a cpl days to do it) is will this > little charger charger my 105 amp hour battery?? The manual with it says it’s > for batteries that are from 5 to 125 ah batteries. The 125 is more than the > max 105 listed, but I have read where ppl say YES it will charge my battery, > and others say NO it won’t. Truth probably lies in the middle as in like I > said, I think it will, but may take up to a cpl days to do so, depending on > how drained the battery is. Anybody here tried a charger like this?? Reason I > want this is because I plan to make a “bass boat” out of my jon boat be > decking it with plywood in the front and back, so we have a place to stand up > while fishing as my back starts to hurt if I sit all day, so I plan to > “permanently” mount this charger on my stern plywood piece, so that all I > have to do it run the extension cord to the boat and let er rip. Thanks a > lot. Chuck > > http://www.harborfreight.com/12-volt-deluxe-battery-maintainer-and-float-charger-61911.html > > <http://www.harborfreight.com/12-volt-deluxe-battery-maintainer-and-float-charger-61911.html> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > <http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en> > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > <http://www.linesend.com/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
