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David G

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At least one of the batteries in my 2016 Diesel went bad while I was gone, they are 4 years 3 months old. I normally replace them at about 4 years, as it costs me more to be down than the batteries. I am headed up to NW Iowa on Wednesday, so glad it happened at home.
 
Please stop at your local Harbor Freight and pick one up. I now have FOUR of these with two stuck on batteries. They are awesome. Even better than my Schumacher units. They had them on special a couple of weeks ago for around $23.95 but it was only for three days. Even at the full price you NEED one of these. Six and twelve volts plus flooded, AGM, and a recovery program. Please check it out . Just stick it on your tractor and walk away.
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Jeff here I thought I was the only one that had discovered this unit. Bought mine when they were on sale with Christmas gift cards. I have already save two batteries that I had written off as bad. I am like you this thing is worth ever penny of the cost.
 
I use those battery maintainers a lot . ive got some batteries that are over 8 years old and still going strong.
 
They are a real winner. Very smooth voltage output. Setup my garden and lawn tractors beside each other. Hooked the unit to one of them and then little handmade jumpers from one to the other. Lastly throw a big tarp over them and kiss them good night. Will take a couple of pics. tomorrow. A true maintainer makes such a huge difference. By the way...this thing is also temperature compensated.
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4 years isn't much battery life,I'm going to have to replace the batteries in my 1999 F550 diesel they have 2011 stickers on them,only the 2nd set I've bought for that truck,original ones didn't last very long.
 
I bought my 08 Silverado new. This is the 4th winter I've taken it to FL. It still only has 58,000 miles on it. In other words, it sits a lot. The battery started getting sluggish if it sat for 3 weeks in 2013. I began using a $12 battery maintainer on it when parked and I finally replaced the battery in 2019. If I drove it everyday or every other day, the battery was fine, even in below 0 weather. I still keep that battery in a tractor on a maintainer, I just felt it was going to leave me stranded in FL this year.
 
Oh BOO HOO! Cry me a river! You're what? replacing two truck batteries? I'm about ready, any week now, to replace my batteries -all twelve of them. Twelve T-105 Trojans a tad north of 1,600$. At least if I remember correct it'll give me a 1,620 amp hour battery bank. I do keep them hook up to a maintainer all the time, but it only runs during daylight hours.

Anyway, enjoy Iowa. I'd wager you won't have as much fun as you did in the Virgin Islands.

JD
 
I am disgusted with batteries. I bought 4 deep cycle batteries
from Wal-Mart for our solar system. Two failed early on. They
replaced the first one no problem. The second one they have me
so much carp I won't go back. Now after 2 years they are all
dead along with my charge controller. I am thinking of looking
into a power wall with some kind of warrenty.
 
They are a real winner. Very smooth voltage output. Setup my garden and lawn tractors beside each other. Hooked the unit to one of them and then little handmade jumpers from one to the other. Lastly throw a big tarp over them and kiss them good night. Will take a couple of pics. tomorrow. A true maintainer makes such a huge difference. By the way...this thing is also temperature compensated.
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I've never owned or used a battery maintainer and have a factory battery on my Kubota M6800 that came with the tractor in Oct, 2001. Always disconnect battery if I'm gone longer than a week. It has never been accidentally discharged. Always preheat tractor engine and simultaneously charge battery before cold weather starts. Tractor gets used year around because it is so handy. Stored inside. Kept clean with good connections. No corrosion anywhere on or around it. Sadly, I don't think Kubota offers a replacement battery like it.
 
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