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What do you all do to maintain your battery on your equipment?

What is the best way to make them last?

What brands do you use?

Battery Tender?

I have about a dozen or so of these. They work fine to keep a charged battery charged during off season storage.

battery tender, 4 to 5 years max on most batteries is all one will get,

I have good luck just leaving mine alone.
My tractors original battery lasted 11 years. Current battery is 10 year and still going strong.
My last pickup truck battery lasted 13 years.
My zero turn mower battery is the 9 year old original.
None have ever had a battery tender on them.

DK35vince said:

I have good luck just leaving mine alone.
My tractors original battery lasted 11 years. Current battery is 10 year and still going strong.
My last pickup truck battery lasted 13 years.
My zero turn mower battery is the 9 year old original.
None have ever had a battery tender on them.

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we have a guy like that on another forum I go to. If someone gets 22 miles per gallon he gets 35. If their engine lasts 150,000 miles on an old 60's or 70's car his lasts 600,000. If someone gets 50,000 on a set of tires, he gets 150,000. I guess some people are just lucky.

Lol you must live in the best climate In the world if you are getting 9 years out of a battery. I'd be happy with half that!

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DK35vince said:

I have good luck just leaving mine alone.
My tractors original battery lasted 11 years. Current battery is 10 year and still going strong.
My last pickup truck battery lasted 13 years.
My zero turn mower battery is the 9 year old original.
None have ever had a battery tender on them.

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Not bad.
My tractors original battery lasted 12 years. Current battery is 11 year and still going strong.
My last pickup truck battery lasted 14 years.
My zero turn mower battery is the 10 year old original.
My smoke detector battery lasted 20 years and would have lasted longer if the house hadn't burned down.

DK35vince said:

I have good luck just leaving mine alone.
My tractors original battery lasted 11 years. Current battery is 10 year and still going strong.
My last pickup truck battery lasted 13 years.
My zero turn mower battery is the 9 year old original.
None have ever had a battery tender on them.

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And you might live in Argentina where it's 74F everyday. Some people get snow and ice in the winter.

Back on topic, pull battery. Take it inside your house. Put a Battery Tender on it. Keep the top wiped off and clean. Don't forget battery hold-downs too.

slomo said:

And you might live in Argentina where it's 74F everyday. Some people get snow and ice in the winter.

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I live in the salt belt (Pa.)

slomo said:

And you might live in Argentina where it's 74F everyday. Some people get snow and ice in the winter.

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Slomo, You might need to look at a map as it can and does get down right cold there at times especially the Southern tip.

Was looking at the new lithium ion batteries for the trolling motor for the boat. Then i saw the price. Maybe not.

Hammermechanicman said:

Was looking at the new lithium ion batteries for the trolling motor for the boat. Then i saw the price. Maybe not.

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Yelp everything is going out of sight. Even the eggs that just went down are going back up per the store manager at Kroger. 5# of potatoes last week were $2 and was only $3.89 yesterday. There hasn't been a steak nor bacon in my house in over a year now. Just can't keep buying those things so I am eating more and more Ramen noodles.

Well one good side effect of inflation is that my waistline is shrinking. Even though I have nearly $1500 in parts coming early in the week. Ouch.

And on one order only one screw is coming in so a major will be held up until April.

Just dropped a few hundred for maint items to stock up for the spring. Spent a couple hundred more than last year.

StarTech said:

Slomo, You might need to look at a map as it can and does get down right cold there at times especially the Southern tip.

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Just grabbed this for Argentina. I was off 2 degrees, sorry about that.