BF>> What is a trickle charger?

 SH> Note Jim Kerr's description:

 SH> "A 2 Amp trickle charger can be used all winter long. The
power put out by

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This is something I never have heard of but if you are having a good battery
this shouldn't be necessary. Only if you only drive for a short distance to or
from your work every day. Then the battery never will be fully loaded.

 SH> What you can do is to improve contacts and other parts that make a starter
 SH> operate with less waste.  I haven't ever had to whack the solenoid on the
 SH> starters of my last three cars but sure used to have to on the starters of
 SH> my old beaters in the 60s and 70s.

All contacts and the solenoid are aldready optimized so there is no waste.
The problem is to turn the engine including all its components like the generator,
waterpump, oilpump aso. and doing all this takes much power that the battery
have to provide to the starter.

//Bj”rn

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