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I took a cruise through the Deltran Battery Tender website and that’s when I discovered that this is a special Costco Edition Battery Tender.Īt 3.0 Amps, it has very good specs and it includes the standard automatic charging/maintaining features of the other Battery Tenders I’ve used (the classic Battery Tender Plus in the metal vented box). The sale usually ended just before I need to buy whatever it is.) (Normally this kind of thing never happens to me.
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Who knew Costco carried Battery Tenders? Not me anyway…Īnd the sale was way too good to resist: $10.00 off the normal price of $39.99 (Deltran lists it for $74.99) and free shipping. That convinced me to start searching for another Battery Tender to add to the collection.Īll of that took place around the end of December 2016 and just before the holidays, I received a Costco sale email, featuring a Battery Tender Plus. Just for kicks, I grabbed one of the other Battery Tenders, connected it to the BMW and after a few minutes of green light blinking, the green light came on steady and everything was good again. The Noco G750 just doesn’t seem to get along with the BMW’s battery, and it may be the fact that the G750 is a 0.75 Amp charger, which could be marginal for a motorcycle battery (although it works with no problems on the newer bikes in the garage). I repeated the process, then again, and then once more.įinally, I figured either the Noco charger was defective, too sensitive or there’s something about the Westco battery in the BMW that the Noco G750 didn’t like.
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I read through the manual but I couldn’t find anything wrong, so I disconnected it and let it sit for a few hours, then fired it up again.Įverything looked good again until a week or so passed and then the lights started blinking once more. That was when I noticed the blinking red warning lights appear. Other than the poor design of the Noco charger, which has a built-in plug that takes up 2-3 outlets on the wall - and the fact that you need to buy the separate SAE adapter - it seemed to work fine. The most recent of those reviews was the Noco Genius G750 (review), which I then connected to the 1986 BMW R65, parked for the winter.
We’ve reviewed many other brands and types of battery chargers over the years, most or all of them more complicated and with features I either don’t need or didn’t use. The fused connector on the right can be permanently attached to the motorcycle battery so you can easily connect the Battery Tender when the bike is parked. The kit includes a pair of nice SAE adapter cables. I’ve never experienced any other problems. Red light means bad green light means good. Connect it to the bike (I always use an SAE connector (Report), either wired directly or via an adapter port) and it just works. The other thing I like about a Battery Tender is the simplicity. In all that time, only one failed, after about 9 years of continuous service. I’ve been running at least 2 of them in the garage for all that time, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. I’m a big Battery Tender fan, for no other reason than they’ve provided excellent service for me, Burn and Bill over the last 18 years or so.īack then, lead-acid batteries were the only type and a Battery Tender was the maintenance charger you bought. Those include solar versions, bank chargers, water-resistant chargers and everything from tiny 0.75A to 75.0 Amp chargers.Īdd one more: the “Costco Special” Battery Tender. I didn’t realize how good of a deal this was, so next time I see them on sale, I’m buying a few.īack in the old days, there was the Battery Tender.īut in today’s world - with Lithium, LiFePo, AGM, VRLA, Gel - there are dozens of Battery Tenders to choose from. There’s a big “but” though first of all, you’ll have to be a Costco member.Īlso, like most of the stuff at Costco, these come into stock and are gone in a flash, so Costco members need to keep a sharp eye and grab one when you can. In fact, Deltran lists the Costco Special at $74.99, so 30 bucks is a certified screamin’ deal. The best part? The list price is $39.99 but Costco had a special member sale and I bought this one for $29.99. It’s also a fully automatic charger just “plug ‘n’ play” and that’s one of the Battery Tender features I really like.Īnd in typical Battery Tender fashion, there are a minimum number of LED indicator lights, with the standard green light for “OK”. It works with either 6V or 12V batteries (user switchable). (The “COS” is the Deltran Costco designator.) This one has a Costco special part number of 022-0202-COS-WH. It’s the only 3A Battery Tender Plus charger and maintainer in the Deltran lineup. This is kind of an off-the-wall story about a special Costco Battery Tender.
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