I'm in the market for a new charger. Is it worth spending the extra money on an Optimate 6 or 7, or should I just stick with a 4 or 5?
I have 2 of the 4's screwed to the Garage ceiling, 1 for each bike. They are great chargers and battery optimisers but do lack easy to read info as all feedback is via various coloured lights which, tbh I forget what they mean half the time without getting the instruction book out. There are far snazzier chargers on the market which give loads more detailed written info on an LCD screen.
I have the 1 and 4 and both been the mutts since I bought them and work a treat on the bike and kit car every winter. So unless there is any options on the newer ones you really want I would stick with the cheaper
I have a 4. Which has been great , think I read somewhere that they've just made a new model for the latest batteries etc
I have the very first one still going strong why change if it works only a trickle charger,save your dosh for fuel you will enjoy that better. This is the one I have ancient
Agree totally with this. Great chargers but whatever the feck it's doing at any one time is a total mystery. Mine started flashing a sequence of lights once that no interpretation of the instructions matched. Christ knows what it was doing. I filmed it and emailed them and the response, in effect, was 'don't worry about it. It'll be fine'...
Yeah, this is true. Have walked in to the Garage many a time and looked up at the Disco going on and thought what the Fek is it doing now?? Bottom line though is all my Batts spin up like good'uns and always have, so I worry my self not as to what's occuring in the little Optimates head!
I dropped mine once and it started making an angry buzzing so I emailed the UK vendor about it. Within hours I got an email from Belgium wanting to replace it. I played the good guy and coughed up to just being a clumsy pratt but they were adamant and got the vendor to replace it. So I can't even argue that. Just put an LCD on it for the hard of thinking guys...
These two have been screwed to my garage ceiling for years ( the oldest is at least 12 years old). I always connect up when the bikes are parked and have never (touching wood) had a flat battery even when I used my heated jacket and gloves in the winter. I used the jacket and gloves on a 200cc scooter for work. The scoots 10 years old now and still on the original battery. I find on the scooter I sometimes have to "excite" the circuit by switching the ignition on then off to get the right lights on the Optimate, other than that they've been no trouble at all.
Well after asking about Optimate I went and ordered the Oxford The ability to charge Lithium batteries swung it, although having had a read it is not designed to be used as a trickle charger/maintainer for them.
I thought maintenance mode and charging was essential for motorcycle use. Well they are to me. I have used an accumate (which does not have desulfation for years and added a 5A ctek last year which does my car too
