fatjay
Veteran Member
I just brought home my lift and it has 4 6v deep cycle batteries in series, bumping it up to 24v. It has a built in charger, but it's a dumb charger with a dial similar to a kitchen timer, you turn it, it ticks down until ding, it's done. There's no indicators that tell me what the voltage is. It's 40 years old so this doesn't surprise me, but cooking or running down batteries to far would be an $800 mistake so I'd like to avoid that.
With current technologies in battery tenders, I feel like I should be able to just plug it in when not in use and it would keep the batteries topped up, as well as if it's not in use for an extended period, it would save the batteries from discharging over time and going dead. But I dont' know if deep cycle batteries are different from conventional batteries as far as chargers/maintainers go.
I found this charger and one of the reviews specifically references he uses it for a man-lift batteries. But another says it cooked his batteries. Anyone have any experience with something I can permanently install into the machine that would keep the batteries topped up?
With current technologies in battery tenders, I feel like I should be able to just plug it in when not in use and it would keep the batteries topped up, as well as if it's not in use for an extended period, it would save the batteries from discharging over time and going dead. But I dont' know if deep cycle batteries are different from conventional batteries as far as chargers/maintainers go.
I found this charger and one of the reviews specifically references he uses it for a man-lift batteries. But another says it cooked his batteries. Anyone have any experience with something I can permanently install into the machine that would keep the batteries topped up?