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Title: Battery tender
Post by: mrmike on September 20, 2021, 10:26:13 PM

I have a battery tender I use for my John Deere garden tractor. If I park my scooter next to it, and run jumper wires, will one battery tender keep both batteries charged over the winter?

Title: Re: Battery tender
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 20, 2021, 10:47:34 PM

Quote from: mrmike on September 20, 2021, 10:26:13 PM

I have a battery tender I use for my John Deere garden tractor. If I park my scooter next to it, and run jumper wires, will one battery tender keep both batteries charged over the winter?

Not a good idea. Good way to ruin two batteries.   Battery tenders are  cheap or charge one take it off and top off the other.

Title: Re: Battery tender
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on September 21, 2021, 12:04:28 AM

Ride one, snow plow with the other😊
Yeah, alternate topping them up between rides.
Stig

Title: Re: Battery tender
Post by: Ruffus on September 21, 2021, 09:27:40 AM

@mrmike, just make both of them a pigtail at a convenient spot, so it's a few seconds to change the battery tender from one vehicle to the other.
I usually fit my rides with a 12V socket directely to the battery with a fuse in the + cable.