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Old 02-17-2012, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by bluetec View Post
There are now two battery chargers rebadged by BMW. One is the Deltran Battery Tender and the other is the CTEK 3300. AGM batteries require a higher charging voltage than lead-acid which the CTEK (and others) provide with an AGM mode. Battery Tender does not have this mode. The one I purchased is the 3.5 Amp, 8-step NOCO Genius g3500. It is excellent and I am very satisifed with it's performance. If you are looking to buy a charger, you may as well buy one with the AGM mode. The "why we have to use one" is the topic of numerous other threads, so I won't get into that here.
I disagree, but we may be caught in semantics...when I ref'd Battery Tender in my orig post, I should have pointed toward the newer version, Battery Tender Plus. I have an old BT, and 2 newer BT Plus units. I know the BT Plus performs well on AGM batteries...and I did pitch CTek, which I know to be qual product also. But, BT Plus will do well on any normal AGM batt, imo.
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