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sswilson said:
Now that my better half is no longer going into work every day our car battery has started losing cranking power. It's been cold so it could be that, or it could be that the 6 yr old battery just needs replacing, but I suspect it's caused by us only doing a couple of 10 minute trips / week.

Based on that, I grabbed one of these trickle chargers.

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I usually don't recommend those ones. When a battery is nearly completely flat those cheap ones often fail to detect the battery and start charging. A lot of the Noco line has a force charge state so that it will actually start charging a nearly dead/completely dead battery and they support AGM batteries if you were to ever install one.

In theory if it is always plugged in you should never hit that but otherwise you have to jump start a dead or nearly dead AGM battery with another battery to get those ones to kick in and that is just a lot of messing around.
 
sswilson said:
Now that my better half is no longer going into work every day our car battery has started losing cranking power. It's been cold so it could be that, or it could be that the 6 yr old battery just needs replacing, but I suspect it's caused by us only doing a couple of 10 minute trips / week.

Based on that, I grabbed one of these trickle chargers.

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Some new cars, like my '08 accura has the bluetooth connection that draws power constantly from the battery even when the car is off. You are right about the 10 minute trips.
 
Izerous said:
I usually don't recommend those ones. When a battery is nearly completely flat those cheap ones often fail to detect the battery and start charging. A lot of the Noco line has a force charge state so that it will actually start charging a nearly dead/completely dead battery and they support AGM batteries if you were to ever install one.

In theory if it is always plugged in you should never hit that but otherwise you have to jump start a dead or nearly dead AGM battery with another battery to get those ones to kick in and that is just a lot of messing around.
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Yeah, this model has a statement about needing to manually charge the battery if it falls below 1V. I've got one of those glovebox boosters to cover that scenario if it comes up (and quite frankly... if my battery is dropping below 1V without sitting unused for months it probably needs replacing anyways).

We'll see how it goes. I'm hoping that I don't need to have it plugged in 24/7 and that throwing it on overnight once a week will keep the battery topped up.
 
sswilson said:
Now that my better half is no longer going into work every day our car battery has started losing cranking power. It's been cold so it could be that, or it could be that the 6 yr old battery just needs replacing, but I suspect it's caused by us only doing a couple of 10 minute trips / week.

Based on that, I grabbed one of these trickle chargers.

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In my experience batteries start loosing their grunt past 6 years or so. The first indicators come up in the cold cold weather.
 
420K / 7.5 years on my current battery. Had to boost it last week, but I think that is more likely cause the block heater plug didn't make a good connection. Has started 30 times since no issue.
 
stoanee said:
In my experience batteries start loosing their grunt past 6 years or so. The first indicators come up in the cold cold weather.
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Yeah, I won't be overly surprised if I end up having to grab a new battery for this. The trickle charger is something I was planning to get (based on our reduced use and short driving/charging times) anyways so this was a good chance to grab it as a stop-gap measure.
 
I have to combine all my odometers together to reach close to that milage.

I have 4 vehicles...
2004 Outlander = 170k (was about 60k when I bought it 14 years ago)
2012 Frontier = 80k
1953 Dodge Pickup = 89k (could be 189k only has 5 digit odometer) but I have never driven it as it doesn't run
1996 Dodge Ram = 180k which I have only driven about 1km at most

110,000 + 80,000 + 0 + 1 .... 190,001 in the past 14-15 years
total milage between all vehicles if I were to add them up only reaches (170,000+80,000+89,000+180,000) = 519,000 and most of those were not mine

Numbers would be higher if my wife wasn't laid off and I wasn't working from home during all of this but not super significantly more.
 
So the ubiquiti A6-LR access points don't come with the poe injectors like their previous generation APs. Finally got my hand on an "at" rated injector today without buying a really expensive poe switch.
 
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