Other winter battery maintenance

[SharkB8]

I have my "intelligent" battery charger set up on a timer to come on every day for 15 minutes so it can have its way with my battery and do whatever it feels is necessary.

I was going to leave it set up like this for the winter.

Even though its only charging at somewhere between 0 and two amps (amps goes up and down during the charge and is shown on the digital display), the battery sounds like its "boiling" a little and there are some bubbles visible.

So my question... is it better to do this every day, or would it be better to top it off only once a week, rather than boiling off the acid every single day.

Or would once a week cause the charge to drop low enough that sulfation would happen to the lead plates.

If it matters, its a cheap Wal-Mart battery. I usually get two years out of them.

 

[AtomicPunk]

Once a week is more than enough, as long as you don't have a parasitic draw (not likely).

 

[Waternut]

Heck even once a month is plenty... If it needs more than that, it's dying anyway and you're just keeping it on life support until it dies completely. I've used my Deka for about 4 years. Last winter, I didn't ride for 2-3 months and when I hooked the charger up to it, it wouldn't charge it because it was still full.

 

[kawi_mods]

I Have mine stored about 6 months of the year and try to put a charge about 3 months in and it doesn't need it, stays fully charged and I'm on the batteries 5th year! Things a champ!

PS: CANADA SUCKS when you wanna ride all year!!