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JHZR2, Impressive testing. I recently bought a Schumacher SC1299 which is a low cost 0.8A maintainer. I use this on a car with a deep cycle battery that I dont drive often. I have a volt meter/USB in one of my power plugs in the car so I can always see batt voltage (was not driving car at...

I think the newer cars have much more draw when off because of alarms and the safety systems. On the review for the solar trickle charger one guy said he has a new 4Runner (which he does not drive frequently) and lost 3 batteries before he wised up and got a trickle charger. I measured my...

Yeah, need to check the draw. Its an ancient truck also, 1998 Tacoma so should be low draw. Only thing different is I now have one of those USB charging adapters that shows the batt voltage. I also got one of those small solar panels with battery float charger. AGM's are now what you get at the...

Hi, I have 5 year old 60Ah Odyssey, did not drive the truck for a couple of weeks and battery voltage was 10.5V. I have a very old and cheap 6A battery charger. Put that on and eventually the charge level meter was bouncing between 100% and 50% with voltages of 14.8 and 13.6 respectively so I...