Winter storage with battery tender

[sengli7 6]

Well its looking like almost that time of year. As with all my other toy type cars it will be time to store it for the winter. I have always kept my stored vehicles on a battery tender. This charger isnt as easy to find a place for the charge wires to reside. Currently I am running the charge lead into the 12volt receptacle in the center console. Anyone else have a suggestion on placement?

My other cars I ran it in the trunk, or out the front of the grill area.

 

[aceinspp140 170]

You can hook up your batter tender under the hood. My dealer has their Charger hooked up this way. Plus to plus terminal and then to neg ground post. The pos is under a plastic grate. Latter RJD

 

[sengli7 6]

I had thought about doing that, but didnt see any easy access to the outside of the engine bay, where I can plug it in.

 

[aceinspp140 170]

You just run wires out of hood and close it. If you have a tender like mine I can unplug part of it and never unplug batter terminals and neg terminal. Later RJD

 

[daperry85 85]

You can hook up your batter tender under the hood. My dealer has their Charger hooked up this way. Plus to plus terminal and then to neg ground post. The pos is under a plastic grate. Latter RJD

For my boat batteries (2 lead acid starter and 1 AGM deep cycle), I use a NOCO Genius OnBoard Marine Battery Charger & Maintainer. Has overcharge protection, integrated thermal sensor for hot and cold weather adjustments, and a repair mode for extremely dead batteries. Great for cars and RVs too.

 

[aceinspp140 170]

The name battery tender is the brand name I use and have it hooked to my 2016 Charger battery in trunk. Used these for years and simple to use as mentioned no need to totally disconnect when ready to drive. I lave the pig tail end hooked up battery all the time and drive off. Come back open trunk plug two ends together. Close trunk. Later RJD

 

[sengli7 6]

Guess the least invasive way to run the charge lead was to bring it out in the passenger cowl area. Connected to the auxiliary jump start posts. Every time I get near this car it starts turning on the electronics. This car is going to be hard on batteries.

 

[baabootoo138 124]

Read up storage? mode for non-use in the manual??