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With, ahem, numerous bikes in the garage I keep them all on tenders. I have one older Battery Tender Jr. that is chugging along nicely, but two of the newer ones started acting up. I believe there is an even newer style but I don't have one.
The LEDs started flashing green rapidly. Not good. Cursory search of the interwebs showed this to be... bad. Then the other one did the same thing. At $20 ea I was not happy to have to replace them both. Being it's wintertime and riding will be sporadic for several months (it's going to get pretty cold really soon and although the garage is well insulated it still gets chilly in there) I needed to keep the batteries alive.
I found an older video showing how to fix them. It seems the capacitors go out and just replacing them should work. Off to Amazon I went and for $5 (Prime) I had 5 capacitors in my hands in a couple days.
Now I'm no electrical wizard but the fix was within my meager capabilities. The first one when somewhat smoothly although I had a hard time getting one leg to cooperate. But when I buttoned it up it worked perfectly. At this point I'm up $19 so might as well do the other one.
I now have two working tenders and the bikes will have lovely batteries at the ready. And I have extra capacitors if I need them.
The LEDs started flashing green rapidly. Not good. Cursory search of the interwebs showed this to be... bad. Then the other one did the same thing. At $20 ea I was not happy to have to replace them both. Being it's wintertime and riding will be sporadic for several months (it's going to get pretty cold really soon and although the garage is well insulated it still gets chilly in there) I needed to keep the batteries alive.
I found an older video showing how to fix them. It seems the capacitors go out and just replacing them should work. Off to Amazon I went and for $5 (Prime) I had 5 capacitors in my hands in a couple days.
Now I'm no electrical wizard but the fix was within my meager capabilities. The first one when somewhat smoothly although I had a hard time getting one leg to cooperate. But when I buttoned it up it worked perfectly. At this point I'm up $19 so might as well do the other one.
I now have two working tenders and the bikes will have lovely batteries at the ready. And I have extra capacitors if I need them.
