I put my trickle charger on until the battery is fully charged
Leave it 1 additional day & take it off for a month
Rinse repeat
I left it on my Harley over the winter & it dried out my battery
Its 1 amp
I don t trust this shit
That's the difference between the real thing and cheap ones. A good maintainer can be left on indefinitely and will charge (maintain) as needed. No more, no less. It doesn't matter if it's capable of putting out 0.5 Amps or 5.
My '17 Ram 3500 can sit for up to six months at a time and has a PulseTech maintainer on it when parked. On trips it has a Canadus hooked up, so it always having desulfation. That maintainer and the Canadus aren't cheap, but neither are the two batteries.
Basically, I try to keep voltages as constant as possible, avoiding adding cycles to the batteries. There are only so many cycles in a battery's life, and the lower the fluctuations and the fewer the cycles, the better. Vehicles living outside have 10W solar panels, so there are daily voltage cycles, but at least the're very shallow ones.
The 'Cats and a couple of other batteries have BatterMINDers hooked up when in the garage, 24/7, and those are a very affordable. Have used those for decades with very good results, and trust them to be on at all times, in different buildings.
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