Quote Originally Posted by SLP View Post
The way he explained it, the charger would go into kind of a maintenance mode and it would be better for both charger and battery. Good point about the electric bill. I wonder how much it draws if it is only occasionally turning on to keep the battery at a maximum?
It goes into float mode after a while and does not draw very much current. It monitors the voltage on the batteries until they drop below a certain point and then it tops them back up. It is the best way to maintain your batteries. As for the brand batteries I have, I bought three new batteries this spring. They are SuperLex batteries and so far they have impressed me. Not to mention they were around $80 a piece which is way cheaper than any other battery I checked on.