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Old 03-24-2012, 12:44 PM   #1
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Default Re: Battery charger choice for Optima type battery?

Optima has their own charger coming out this Spring, here's a link to it -

http://www.optimabatteries.com/optima_products/charger/

Here's some charging information on the Optima/AGM batteries -

http://www.optimabatteries.com/produ...t/charging.php

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Old 03-24-2012, 01:33 PM   #2
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Default Re: Battery charger choice for Optima type battery?

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Optima has their own charger coming out this Spring, here's a link to it -

http://www.optimabatteries.com/optima_products/charger/

Here's some charging information on the Optima/AGM batteries -

http://www.optimabatteries.com/produ...t/charging.php

Good Luck!

Lew

Lew,

Thanks for the good info.

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Old 03-24-2012, 02:28 PM   #3
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Yes Lew thank you for the info. If I'd had my thinking cap on I should have went to the Optima site in the first place! Having said that this has provided some technical dialogue. Bonus! Doug
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Old 03-24-2012, 06:52 PM   #4
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Along the lines of what magnumv8 said, I've been using "automatic" battery chargers on Optima and Odyssey batteries for years with no issues and getting long life out of the batteries. I've used a Schumacher auto taper charge with 2amp and 10 amp switches. At the moment I forget the name of the brand I'm using now, but it's a well know company who makes a variety of crappy tools. "Orange" is their color. But this battery charger has been working well and it basically goes into a trickle cycle to maintain it once fully charged.

I've always heard that it's important to keep batteries fully charged, so I keep them up during the races and fully charge them as soon as I can after the races.
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Old 03-24-2012, 07:24 PM   #5
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Default Re: Battery charger choice for Optima type battery?

Just going to add my 2 cents to this thread...........

I learned a trick about charging gel-cell batteries from when they first came on the market....

If your gel-cell will not take a charge try the procedure below....

Take your charger and connect the cables to a conventional lead-acid battery next you connect, in parallel (negative to negative and positive to positive, + to + and - to -), your gel-cell battery with a pair of jumper cables. Turn on your charger with the lowest charging rate that you have…..

This will put a load on the charger and act as an electrical damper for the gel-cell.....

I have brought many gel-cells back to life with this procedure.....

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Old 03-24-2012, 09:34 PM   #6
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Bob Mulry you have a PM
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Old 03-25-2012, 09:52 AM   #7
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I have this Black & Decker that I like a lot. It was recommended by a racer friend with three cars and three of these chargers. It has settings for wet cell, AGM, and Gell Cell. Works great with the Optimas in the race car and the deep cycle wet cells in the trailer.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._ya_os_product
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