What battery maintainer is everyone using?

Battery chargers low amp ones beware I have had a couple burn up almost caused fire.as for batterys ok a few years back we bought a car had an energizer battery yeah the bunny kind its was 11 yo .never had an 11 year old battery even interstate only lasted 5 to 7 years someone said sams had sold them...it was working when we sold the car guiness record here ? Got an old wal mart battery in my monte had to jump it of twice as it's sitting duck / tarpon now....lol

The original Delco in the 2010 GMC died on me after 10 years. March 2020 I put a new battery in it. End of May 2020 I traded it in for a 2020 GMC truck so I got another brand new Delco battery with the truck. Go figure. The 2010 was driven regularly and the truck was maintained well, so that makes a difference, I believe.

Oh, just remembered the 2013 Camaro ZL1 original Delco battery is over 11 years old now and still cranks the car up. Keep it on a tender while parked. ~2,500 miles on it. I need to drive that thing more.

I'm leery of using them at all. Too many fire horror stories. I own a Battery Tender Plus and it works fine, but I don't use it that often and if I do, I pull the battery out of the vehicle and charge it in the far corner of the garage where if it caught fire, nothing is nearby except block walls and a concrete floor.

RICKDIZZLE said:

After having to buy a new battery today as mine took a dump due to not being on a maintainer and parked for a bit...would like to pick one up. What you guys recommend. I have a great Schumacher charger...but no maintainer lol.
Is the Battery Tender Junior decent?

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Three months ago, I bought one from Walmart for my trailer winch battery for about $18 usd and it has worked perfectly. My tractor battery gave up the ghost last month so when I buy a new one I will buy another maintainer (trickle charger) for that battery too.

I just leave it alone and throw the charger on it occasionally.

I'm pretty sure I have the Schumacher 1343 1.5 amp trickle charger on my Dakota. It was miserable in -40, probably because I drive the Challenger every chance I get and it sits. I replaced the block heater and cord, not sure it was working before or after, couldn't hear it. I put it in a multiple plug block so it runs with the block heater when plugged in. Seems to help along with discount 0W30 from work.

believe it or not i been using the cheap Harbor freight junk ones that cost me around $6.00 for over 10 years now lol it just works i have them on my lawn mower to my cars and all of them work correctly

I have been using BTJ's for around 20 years now or so (I think they were just battery tenders back in the day), no fires, only thousands in savings on batteries. I use them on everything, cars, trucks, lawnmowers, UTV's, ATV's etc.

I'm gonna do it...I'm gonna be honest knowing full well that my, albeit, honest response might open me up to ridicule and shame...that said here goes.

I have been using the Harbor Freight Special. There; I said it.

Not the expensive one either, the $10.00 job. While it lacks the frills that other more expensive models may have, digital readouts, etc., it does the job I need it to do. I have had such success with one, I bought (3) more.

This one has worked great for me

Foval Automatic Trickle Battery Charger 12V 1000mA Smart Battery Charger https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074Z2NFWW/?tag=gbody-20