I bought a Optima battery charger for my toy hauler.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/ult-150-40008/overview/
It is like a battery tender, but there is some voodoo magic involved. Maybe just for Optimas I am not sure, but I ran my RV Optima battery all the way down below 8V and nothing would bring it back to life. I put a Schumacher on it, and it wouldn't go above 8, then I left a tender on it for 5 days never went above 8 volts.
So I was reading a review of this charger and someone said that it brought dead Optimas back to life, and since I wanted a dedicated trickle charger for my toy hauler, I decided to give it a shot.
I hooked it up to my dead Optima and sure enough in just a few hours it creeped up to 9 then 10 volts. I left it on over night, and the next morning 12.9, then the next day 13 + volts again. I am still running this battery in my toy hauler.
I bought this charger because I am running dual Optimas in my TJ, dual Optimas in my Ram, and dual Optimas in my toy hauler. Now that I think about it, I should buy stock in Optima hehe
It comes with ends you can bolt onto the battery and plug into the charger or clamps that plug into the charger and after the first time I used the clamps they stopped working. Since the unit still works good, I didn't want to send it back, so I wrote Optima an email stating that the clamps didn't work after the first use. They took a while to get back to me, but I just got an email asking for my address, so they can send me new ones. They didn't even ask for proof of purchase or even where I bought it. Just going to send me new ones.
I am pretty stoked about that. I just wanted to post this in case this interests anybody, because I like to read about good service, so I like to write about it too.
Also I would recommend this charger to anybody that has an Optima.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/ult-150-40008/overview/
It is like a battery tender, but there is some voodoo magic involved. Maybe just for Optimas I am not sure, but I ran my RV Optima battery all the way down below 8V and nothing would bring it back to life. I put a Schumacher on it, and it wouldn't go above 8, then I left a tender on it for 5 days never went above 8 volts.
So I was reading a review of this charger and someone said that it brought dead Optimas back to life, and since I wanted a dedicated trickle charger for my toy hauler, I decided to give it a shot.
I hooked it up to my dead Optima and sure enough in just a few hours it creeped up to 9 then 10 volts. I left it on over night, and the next morning 12.9, then the next day 13 + volts again. I am still running this battery in my toy hauler.
I bought this charger because I am running dual Optimas in my TJ, dual Optimas in my Ram, and dual Optimas in my toy hauler. Now that I think about it, I should buy stock in Optima hehe
It comes with ends you can bolt onto the battery and plug into the charger or clamps that plug into the charger and after the first time I used the clamps they stopped working. Since the unit still works good, I didn't want to send it back, so I wrote Optima an email stating that the clamps didn't work after the first use. They took a while to get back to me, but I just got an email asking for my address, so they can send me new ones. They didn't even ask for proof of purchase or even where I bought it. Just going to send me new ones.
I am pretty stoked about that. I just wanted to post this in case this interests anybody, because I like to read about good service, so I like to write about it too.
Also I would recommend this charger to anybody that has an Optima.