Hello

[mrlmd1]

"Battery Tender" is a specific brand name but is also used to represent a host of generic battery tenders or maintainers or trickle chargers or whatever you want to call them. Sort of like Kleenex meaning any tissue.
Patrick - you are quoting something from a Battery Tender "charger", which is not what I am talking about in the previous post or in the previous sentence.
And ER - this is all relative to price, and is a matter of semantics, but a trickle charger and a regular charger are different because of their outputs and intended uses, but they can be used interchangeably if you pay attention to what you are doing and are aware of the limitations or indications for each. So we are all talking about the same thing but using slightly different languages. It's just that when someone has a dead battery, and this really applies to the small batteries in our bikes, (it probably would never work for a car battery), but a real charger is better than an inexpensive maintainer or trickle charger to bring the battery up to speed. Unless you want to wait a few days, and that the owner may not be aware of. Is that OK now, or is there more controversy or discussion necessary about this? And you basically said the same thing I did but you had to do it in your own words. :??: