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mrmike

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Battery tender
« on: September 20, 2021, 10:26:13 PM »
I have a battery tender I use for my John Deere garden tractor. If I park my scooter next to it, and run jumper wires, will one battery tender keep both batteries charged over the winter?
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Re: Battery tender
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2021, 10:47:34 PM »
I have a battery tender I use for my John Deere garden tractor. If I park my scooter next to it, and run jumper wires, will one battery tender keep both batteries charged over the winter?
Not a good idea. Good way to ruin two batteries.   Battery tenders are  cheap or charge one take it off and top off the other.
« Last Edit: September 20, 2021, 10:49:33 PM by Kansas kymco »
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Re: Battery tender
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2021, 12:04:28 AM »
Ride one, snow plow with the other😊
Yeah, alternate topping them up between rides.
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Re: Battery tender
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2021, 09:27:40 AM »
@mrmike, just make both of them a pigtail at a convenient spot, so it's a few seconds to change the battery tender from one vehicle to the other.
I usually fit my rides with a 12V socket directely to the battery with a fuse in the + cable.
« Last Edit: September 21, 2021, 09:30:08 AM by Ruffus »
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