Battery Minder quality

[BehereNow]

Deep Creek has really grown in the last 10 years. You might not recognize it.
I have a freind with a place on the lake. His father built it about 40 years ago, has maybe $30k invested. Luckily the taxes were grandfathered at a lower rate. It's worth about $1.5M now, just for the waterfront lot. Kids and grandkids all have an interest in it. It is truly a cottage, built by the sweat of three brothers.
My wife works for the coal industry, and they go to Seven Springs for a meeting once a year.
Great seafood buffet Friday night, but I think it is up to $50 plus drinks, cash only, no plastic. It used to include rock lobster, but they took that off. Normally out of our price range, but we go once every few years.

 

[rocket31998]

Deep Creek has really grown in the last 10 years. You might not recognize it.
I have a freind with a place on the lake. His father built it about 40 years ago, has maybe $30k invested. Luckily the taxes were grandfathered at a lower rate. It's worth about $1.5M now, just for the waterfront lot. Kids and grandkids all have an interest in it. It is truly a cottage, built by the sweat of three brothers.
My wife works for the coal industry, and they go to Seven Springs for a meeting once a year.
Great seafood buffet Friday night, but I think it is up to $50 plus drinks, cash only, no plastic. It used to include rock lobster, but they took that off. Normally out of our price range, but we go once every few years.

Things were pretty reasonable at Deep Creek lake 10 - 15 years ago. Of course I had no money back then! Story of my life. I have seen the same thing happen down at the Outer Banks- Rodanthe/ Avon area used to be dirt cheap 20 years ago. Now you can't touch it!

 

[HellFire]

Ok, .......
The Jr works fine in the summer, but aint worth a **** in below freezing temps.
**** thing had to be jumped again!
I broke down and ordered the odyssey charger.
I can't imagine there is that much difference, but if it does what it says and makes it crank over like 50amps are put to the fire, then I'm convinced. It's the strangest thing, once it's run for 20 min, it cranks as fast as idle, but let it sit below freezing for a week on the Jr. and the **** thing cranks for 10 seconds and quits.
Just like a B.O.A.T.--- Break Out Another Thousand (in this case a hundred).
Cuts into my floor board budget, but it has to run 1st.
I'll just move the Jr. over to the generator and let it maintain a lead acid battery.
I hope it comes with some kind of plug like the Jr., that was handy.

I'll let you know if it works better than the Jr.

 

[rocket31998]

Ok, .......
The Jr works fine in the summer, but aint worth a **** in below freezing temps.
**** thing had to be jumped again!
I broke down and ordered the odyssey charger.
I can't imagine there is that much difference, but if it does what it says and makes it crank over like 50amps are put to the fire, then I'm convinced. It's the strangest thing, once it's run for 20 min, it cranks as fast as idle, but let it sit below freezing for a week on the Jr. and the **** thing cranks for 10 seconds and quits.
Just like a B.O.A.T.--- Break Out Another Thousand (in this case a hundred).
Cuts into my floor board budget, but it has to run 1st.
I'll just move the Jr. over to the generator and let it maintain a lead acid battery.
I hope it comes with some kind of plug like the Jr., that was handy.

I'll let you know if it works better than the Jr.

I'm waiting for both my Battery Tender Jr. for the stock battery and the Odyssey charger for the Odyssey. At 16 degrees F this morning I said F*** it and rode into work. I'm hoping a high of 36 this afternoon will be more battery-friendly as I'm stuck here again if not!

 

[BehereNow]

ONE degree this morning at 4:30 when I got up. Now, at about 9:00AM, it climbed to 2.3F.
The garage is not attached to the house, but still keeps about 10 degrees above outside.
I've been letting the Odyssey on it's own, no charging, started the Rocket up for about 5 minutes yesterday when I went out to blow snow.
This morning it wouldn't turn over, so it's on the Odyssey charger now.

 

[rocket31998]

Still awaiting my Odyssey charger via UPS. Maybe tomorrow...

 

[HellFire]

ONE degree this morning at 4:30 when I got up. Now, at about 9:00AM, it climbed to 2.3F.
The garage is not attached to the house, but still keeps about 10 degrees above outside.
I've been letting the Odyssey on it's own, no charging, started the Rocket up for about 5 minutes yesterday when I went out to blow snow.
This morning it wouldn't turn over, so it's on the Odyssey charger now.

Let us know if it started right up or not after the Odyssey was on it awhile.

 

[STRIPES]

25 f this AM and mine wouldn't spin but about 10 seconds. Maybe I need one of those chargers?!?!? I'm sure mine has been affected by my habit of leaving the light on and having to jump.

 

[rocket31998]

I just called and my Odyssey charger arrived today. I still have my stock one on which worked great the other day with a high of 25 when it sat out all day at work in the parking lot. It'll be interesting to see how effectively the Odyssey cranks with the new charger though. It was clearly pretty discharged when I got it.

 

[BehereNow]

I left the Odyssey charger on it for 30 hours. It was about 20 degrees when I got home from work. It pumped a few times, about 5seconds, then fired up. I left it run about 10 minutes while I used the snow blower, then shut it off. I spent another 45 minutes with the snow blower, some of the drifts were over 12".
When I went back to the Rocket as soon as I touched the starter it fired up.
I think the delay at first attempt had more to do with gas than battery. It didn't grunt, just spun the starter.

Looks like this is going to be a cold winter for us. Last winter we got off easy.
I'm letting it off the charger a few days to see what happens.