Can anyone recommend a good battery charger / trickle charger. Want to store bike and there are so many on Amazon
Me too. I have 4 of em plugged in all year.I've always used a Battery Tender Junior.
For consumer or home garage uses I think it is pretty hard to find old fashioned ferroresonat chargers as compared to today's more or less "automatically regulated" 3 or 4 or 5 phase charging profiles chargers that this thread is recommending. I know they are out there and it is good to warn against their use for small capacity motorcycle batteries. I still have a Schumacher ferroresonant charger left over from when I had 6 volt golf cart batteries in my sailboat but I'll probably never use it again and should give it or throw it away.........I don't think you can really go wrong with any brand unless you don't get an intelligent one that goes into standby when the charge is full and comes on when low.
For ease of use look for one that comes with or that you can hook a quick disconnect up to the battery vs having to use alligator clips on the battery to charge it.
These old chargers show up at a lot of house/estate sales. If you know what you are doing, they will serve you well, but it is too easy to cook your battery if they are left connected. Most do not have an anti sulfation pulse cycle, so what you get is worth the few bucks you pay for these.For consumer or home garage uses I think it is pretty hard to find old fashioned ferroresonat chargers as compared to today's more or less "automatically regulated" 3 or 4 or 5 phase charging profiles chargers that this thread is recommending.
If it will attempt to charge dead batteries, which most electronic ones won't, I'm interested!I still have a Schumacher ferroresonant charger left over from when I had 6 volt golf cart batteries in my sailboat but I'll probably never use it again and should give it or throw it away.