Noco charger & maintainer

Joeywhat

Joeywhat

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Anyone using a Noco battery maintainer?

https://no.co/genius5

I have their regular jump starter and I use it all the time. Interestingly enough never on my own vehicles... But it's been used dozens of times at work for various equipment and coworkers cars.

Anyways, just curious if anyone had experience with the tenders, as I'm looking to get a different tender anyways, and this unit has battery leads that allow the portable jump starters to hook up to, which is nice.
 
ST1100Y said:
Exactly the model I'm using, quite versatile...
But it won't plug into the GB50, that requires charging via USB cord...
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No, I'd have the leads connected for the maintainer, and be able to use the jump starter on the bike battery as well without having to access the battery terminals.

Although I may get a new jump starter as well, now that they've gone to USB C to charge it.
 
ST1100Y said:
Exactly the model I'm using, quite versatile...
But it won't plug into the GB50, that requires charging via USB cord...
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Have you used it on anything other than a motorcycle? I'm tempted to get the 10 amp just because, but I can save $30 with the 5A, and I'm not sure if I'd every really use it on anything besides my bike.

Have you tried recharging a dead car or deep cycle battery with it?
 
I have the Noco GB 20 jumper but haven't had to use it yet. Also got 2 of the Genius 1 maintainers and 2 of the the GC 007 cables for both my NC 750X DCT and my wife's Yamaha X Max 300 scooter since they are both "automatics" and can't be bump started. I haven't used the maintainer on mine but my wife's scooter has been plugged in since her last ride last fall.

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I have the genius 2 it’s only 2amps tops less-at trickel. It’s ok for maintaining but will not kick start a flat NOCO battery. The higher amp rated ones do.
 
I have 2 Genius 1s that I rotate between two bikes, mower, and tractor. I have the Genius 5x1 which I believe is the waterproof (marine version) of the one you are asking about. It's mounted under the hood of my diesel pickup. I love them.

They are very highly thought of on the Goldwing forum.
 
Joeywhat said:
Have you tried recharging a dead car or deep cycle battery with it?
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No experience with car batteries, but it worked well on them Yuasa's for ST and NT... (before I'd changed all to modern batteries...)
Most outstanding are the 45 minutes it takes the Genios5 to fully charge a flat NLP14 (or similar LiFEPO4...) :cool:
 
Joeywhat said:
No, I'd have the leads connected for the maintainer, and be able to use the jump starter on the bike battery as well without having to access the battery terminals.

Although I may get a new jump starter as well, now that they've gone to USB C to charge it.
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Be careful with that. I don't believe the leads are rated for high-amperage jump starting. And, as far as I remember, you can't use a jump pack directly with those leads. If you get the GBC007 adapter, as @the Ferret has, you can plug either the charger or booster directly without having to remove the Tupperware.

This is the setup I have on my wife's bike and it works great. Well, we haven't had need to use it to jump yet.
 
Nexus said:
Be careful with that. I don't believe the leads are rated for high-amperage jump starting. And, as far as I remember, you can't use a jump pack directly with those leads. If you get the GBC007 adapter, as @the Ferret has, you can plug either the charger or booster directly without having to remove the Tupperware.

This is the setup I have on my wife's bike and it works great. Well, we haven't had need to use it to jump yet.
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Yes, that's the adapter I'm going to use.
 
the Ferret said:
what about in storage.
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LiFEPO4 won't loose charge :cool: (unless there is some parasitic load...)

Boosted my 1.8ltr gasoline Toyota twice, then the 2.0ltr diesel of my GF twice... and the GB20 was back to [full] within ~45 minutes...

Dunno about a Chevy LS engine though, or a Ford Power Stroke...
 
I have the GENIUS 2X4 and the GENIUS Boost GB30 myself.

It works great at keeping my batteries alive while they get less use during the winter months.

I think the reason those cables are intentionally NOT compatible is the Boost is intended for brief, high-current power delivery to jump start an engine, where the 2X4 is a charger intended for sustained low current operation. I have the 2X4 set up to maintain the batteries in the three assembled bikes in the garage - the CB400F will get one once I get off my arse and get it back in a running state!

The 2X4 came with an assortment of cables and pig tails to go to the battery with ring terminals and others with their spring clamps. The 10' cables sound long, but they're too short to route up and over to the other side of the garage so I have supplemented with some cheap two terminal SAE cables. But those necessitate an adapter to the proprietary NOCO connectors. I bought these and can use the 2X4 with any SAE connector equipped vehicle or battery. They're currently about $18 USD on amazon, but I found mine on sale there for about $7 so I bought enough to equip all the 2X4 outputs.

Would recommend and purchase again.

NOCO GC009 X-Connect SAE Adapter​


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