oxford oximiser 900

[half man half pie]

I don't know if this will help anyone but I've subscribed to Ride mag for 6 months for £22 and they gave me the oxford charger which sells for over £40.
I get the mag anyway as a present so I tacked the new subscription onto the end of my current one
Good deal in my view
I don't know how long this offer is on for but they have one each month

[Bryn]

Just had a look, ends 17th October   

[ChrisB]

Have a look at what they have to offer at the NEC. They usually have a few good deals there.

[viper]

hands up anyone who has had problems with a trickle charger

[coman37]

Me ! Me !

    I got one of those fancy Oximisers???  free with a mag subscription, to trickle charge my bikes,

BUT if I have a power cut/surge, it does not restart itself, you have to push buttons which is no bloody good

Coman

[viper]

my optimate killed a few batteries, now i just have a volt meter attached and when it goes sub 11v  i top up the battery with a normal charger. I think batterys like to discharge and then charge up again as opposed to constant trickle , my 2 cents

[mecki]

Never had one - and never needed one since I normally use the bike at least once a week and that keeps the battery charged enough.
Last winter she'd been sitting in the garage for over a month but started straight away once the snow had melted.

Before I had a garage trickle charging wasn't feasible anyway.
If you have to park your bike outside in winter and don't take the battery inside frost will kill it eventually.
Hooking the battery up to t trickle charger is just not worth the effort and a waste of money IMHO. 

[viper]

Never had one - and never needed one since I normally use the bike at least once a week and that keeps the battery charged enough.
Last winter she'd been sitting in the garage for over a month but started straight away once the snow had melted.

Before I had a garage trickle charging wasn't feasible anyway.
If you have to park your bike outside in winter and don't take the battery inside frost will kill it eventually.
Hooking the battery up to t trickle charger is just not worth the effort and a waste of money IMHO. 

reality is that the battery, a good one , will need very little charge through the winter, last year i parked the bike up start of november and attached my digital volt meter to the battery via its charge lead as i normally do, the volts never went below 11v until early january and then i charged the battery for an hour which bought it back up to 12.5v or so, by the time we got to march it was showing 11.2 volts and although i could have charged it again , the bike fired right up on 11.2 volts .
if your bike is out in the cold you could always bring the battery in the house for the winter , as it will retain its charge better and also better for bike security, i just dont think trickle chargers are neccesary

reality is that the battery, a good one , will need very little charge through the winter, last year i parked the bike up start of november and attached my digital volt meter to the battery via its charge lead as i normally do, the volts never went below 11v until early january and then i charged the battery for an hour which bought it back up to 12.5v or so, by the time we got to march it was showing 11.2 volts and although i could have charged it again , the bike fired right up on 11.2 volts .
if your bike is out in the cold you could always bring the battery in the house for the winter , as it will retain its charge better and also better for bike security, i just dont think trickle chargers are neccesary

[Lonewolf]

   With Viper. I still have an Optimate 4 I think it is in the garage which I haven't used for years as its just not necessary for the GTR.

[O.C.]

This thread reminded me that I have an old AccuMate in the Rev Shed...................just going to check if its still there ...................returns ~ pant, pant....yep its still there, I haven't used it for years and years, I bought it for the ZX9 days 

TBH I just park the GTR up over winter and give her a run up every week and she's always fine come Spring time

[viper]

my exp with a trickle charger was with my 30 yr old xr4i which i used to take off the road every year through the winter, had the charger hooked up and once i started driving it again the battery would fail , this happened 4 years on the trot, the battery always had a 2 yr warranty so i kept going back and getting a replacemnt , after the 4 year the shop owner made a comment about me having a trickle charger, i stop using it after that , ive still got the xr4i and im now in its fifth year on the same battery, im sure TC 's are better now with better tech, but i just done trust them