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Phil_Shifley

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  1. A buddy of mine has several of the HF maintainers/trickle chargers and seems to have good luck with them, My experience however not as good. I picked one up for the wheeling jeep two or three years ago, wife walked into the building a couple months after I bought it and heard the battery "hissing at her". I unhooked it and havent used it since. I'd been running Battery Tender's up to that point and thought I'd give the HF a try because of the low cost. I did pick up a schumacher at local farm supply place a couple months ago and it seems to be doing well.
  2. I bought the wife a KLR250 three years ago. She never really got into riding it so I'd try to ride around the community on a 20 min ride once a week or to work once a month to keep it from sitting. It had a battery tender pigtail when I bought it. If I did not ride it weekly, the battery would drain/draw down enough to not crank. I bought a new battery from ebay and reinstalled the same pig tail when I put the battery in. I had same issues with battery drawing down if I did not drive weekly or keep on battery tender, no crank after sitting over a week. I pulled the positive cable and inserted a meter which showed no current draw with the key out of ignition switch. I ended up selling it last summer to fellow that I used to wheel with and let him know about battery issue. A couple months of the same issues I had he bought new battery from auto parts store, had same drain/no crank issue. He took his new battery out, took to store he bought it to have tested, which tested OK. He reinstalled and said he was in a hurry forgot to put the battery tender pig tail back in as he did when he installed his new battery. He now did not have the problem with battery drawing down. He had bought a name brand Battery Tender after getting the bike but did not put the new pig tail on the battery because the bike already had one. Once he saw the battery was not draining and only difference was the pigtail, he compared the one that was on the bike with the one that came with his name brand battery tender and they were slightly different in appearance, the one that had been on the bike was not an actual Battery Tender brand. He installed the name brand pigtail and has not had an issue since. I never would have thought that the pigtail was the problem and only guess it was poor dielectric quality rubber that had just enough current leeching through to drain the battery but not enough to melt the pigtail .
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