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[PhysAssist]

My Alzheimer's kicking in again. Should have said Amazon.

Why?

We still have RS here....

 

[dragoneggs]

Why?

We still have RS here....

We have one too... went in awhile back and it was sort of nostalgic walking around. Still geeks working there... just a whole lot younger now. :laughing:

 

[PhysAssist]

I've had one for about 10 years now. On any piece of equipment that isn't used regularly I put the Minder on the battery for a week or two. Since doing that I haven't had any new batteries go bad on me. I have a few that were older and had gone flat several times that it's kept the batteries from actually becoming dead. It's not cheap but with the price of a new battery around $100 (was less than half that when I bought the Battery Minder) I feel it's more than paid for itself.

Yup- and our Honda Element's battery, which had been drained numerous times and had never really held a charge as well as we would have liked at least hasn't died on us again since we did what you just described.

 

[PhysAssist]

We have one too... went in awhile back and it was sort of nostalgic walking around. Still geeks working there... just a whole lot younger now. :laughing:

...and they still have all the esoteric radio and electronics parts you might need.

 

[MossRoad]

Why?

We still have RS here....

Walk in there and ask for a capacitor...

 

[MossRoad]

...and they still have all the esoteric radio and electronics parts you might need.

That's one rare Radio Shack. Most of them closed or converted to mostly cell-phone sales. None of the few ones left around here carry electronic parts anymore.

 

[MossRoad]

RadioShack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As of 2016, according to Temkin Experience Ratings, RadioShack is listed as the retailer with the worst overall customer experience, a rank it has held for six consecutive years.

They had over 4000 stores. Now they're down to about 1700.

 

[IslandTractor]

Island, curious which HF ones you have? I have five of the "deluxe" models (about $17 on sale with a coupon), and have used them now for two years on my tractors, UTV and motor home during the winter months. I know they're smarter than my $5 HF models, because they tell you which stage they're at (charging, approaching full charge, and fully charged). Beyond that, dunno if they do anything else. But I'm very pleased with performance. Every bit as good as the more expensive Battery Tender Jr.

I think I must have the cheaper version than you have. No indicator for state of charge, just a red light that comes on whenever it is plugged in. They keep my tractor, lawnmower and boat batteries charged over the 4 month winter season.

 

[pwright]

With Radio Shack there were company stores and then there were franchises. The franchises were older or mostly found in the smaller towns where corporate wasn't going to build a store. The local Radio Shack store here still has all the electronics stuff and the same people still own it. Sprint bought a bunch of the corporate stores to make into cellphone stores.

 

[joefromga]

Radio shack hired the same idiots that McDonald's does. Then they coupled that with older women who know nothing about electronics and expected their PC policies to make money. They failed.