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Had a customer recently who was shocked to find that his one year old battery wasn't covered under warranty...Manufacturer warranties are typically pretty clear about overcharging as well as undercharging your battery. Make sure you have a properly working charging system before you lay out big cash on an expensive battery only to cook it worse than my Aunt Lucille cooks meatloaf.Plus, overcharging can create a very serious explosion potential causing damage to you, your battery, and …

In these economic times, recreational users often go with the cheapest, quickest solution to their immediate issue rather than looking at the long term costs of such a quick-fix.Or, as my Daddy, would say, “People got the Quarter so close to their face, they can’t see the Dollar down the road.”All of the latest reader concerns center around the rising cost of batteries and finding the best value when shopping for Golf Cart Batteries, RV Batteries, and Marine Batteries...The following is an excer …

One of the most frequent questions in the mail box of The Battery Genius is:Which Deep Cycle RV Battery is best for my RV? Rather than delve into the specifics of how in the world of RV Battery Technology, MORE CAPCITY equals MORE POWER and BETTER TECHNOLOGY equals MORE LIFE… we need get to the bottom of what you’re really asking…In order to properly answer the question posed to us, we need to ask what kind of RVer are you?The type of RV deep cycle battery you should buy depends on how you use y …

Whenever the words “Maintenance Free” are used in a an advertisement or product description, in my head - Angels Sing, rainbows flash across the sky and Marisa Tomei dances seductively holding whatever product I’m looking at like a Price Is Right model.What’s so shocking to me is most battery buyers gloss over product type without a second thought! I’m talking about the difference between LOW Maintenance and NO Maintenance Marine Batteries and what that means to you.I absolutely love that people …

When I was a kid, they had those Sears DieHard Battery® commercials that showed their particular product saving someone's hide - over and over and over again after their battery dies at the hand of a brutally cold situation. My favorite was the one that showed some dude cranking hundreds of cars at Soldier Field after their owners' batteries had died in the bitter cold of the parking lot while they sat in their presumably freezing seats stuffing their faces full of sausage sandwiches and be …