How Do You Use A Battery Tender To Charge A Car Battery?
Battery tenders are chargers that put out small amounts of electricity to a low or dead car battery that help the car battery regain a charge. They come in handy for car batteries that haven’t been used in more than a month, because batteries lose power internally when they are not used and not recharged regularly. Hooking up a battery tender should take you about 10 minutes. Turn off your car if it was running and remove the key from the ignition. Open the hood. With a adjustable wrench, remove the black (negative) battery terminal from the battery and place it aside. Remove the red (positive) battery terminal from the car battery. Place it to the side. Clamp the red (positive) clamp of the battery tender over the positive battery terminal so that it won’t come off without physically removing it. Since most vehicles have a negative ground, meaning part of the cord leading to the battery is attached to the frame of the vehicle, clamp the tender’s black (negative) clamp to either the en