[DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight tonight!

[Julian Kift]

Ken,
 
Firstly the Optima is not strictly a dry cell battery, it is still a wet lead-acid, just uses abosrbed glass mat (AGM) to wick and suspend the electrolyte.
 
Odyssey also refer to their batteries as 'dry cell' but again strictly they are wet lead acid AGM. 
 
A lead acid dry cell is the 'GEL' type using sodium silicate to gel and suspend the electrolyte as a paste. These style batteries can require a regulator in the alternatoir circuit for charging.
 
The Dyna-Batt is a true dry cell battery, weighs in at around 13lbs and can be charged with any of the smart chargers we have been discussing.
 
Whichever you use the specs for the CTEK list it suitable for all "12V lead-acid batteries (Wet, MF, AGM, Calcium/Calcium and GEL)"
 
Julian
 


Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:49:06 -0700
From: kenn_green at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight tonight!
To: fresnofinches at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com; julian_kift at hotmail.com






Julan,
 
    I looked at the link you provided and it said lead acid batteries.  Do you know of these can these be used on dry cells like the Optima?
 
Ken

--- On Sun, 10/24/10, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight tonight!
To: fresnofinches at aol.com, "De Tomaso List" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 5:30 PM



Not all made I China; I have CTEK US3300's on my cars, consistently rated top of the battery tender list and Swedish, slightly more expensive at $65 ea, but I got mine when Summit Racing had a special at $54.

http://www.ctek.com/EN-US/home/Default.aspx

Julian


> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:38:59 -0400
> From: fresnofinches at aol.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight tonight!
> 
> 
> Or if you want the Deltran / Eastwood Jr. model, buy it on eBay for a little less, with free shipping.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/tender-Jr-eBay
> 
> Larry
> 
> If you really want cheaper, try Harbor Freight.
> 
> All any of these are is a transformer, a rectifier circuit and a safety/trickle charge pc board.
> They are most likely ALL made in China, anyhow. Probably with many of the same parts.
> 
> 
> 
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