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Battery tender & isolation switches
Posted by Coggs [Email] (more from Coggs) on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:08:16
In Reply to: Re: Battery question, Ray Kopczynski, Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:28:35
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Shouldn't be a big problem but a battery tender is not a bad idea. I hard wired mine to the termianls and it's a simple press connection that takes 15 seconds to hook up. It beats having to get at the battery if you need to jump it. I did install an after-market retro looking radio that does draw a miniscule amount of power even with the igniton off. Otherwise I don't think there is anything in a stock Sonett that would draw power.
I take my Sonett off the road in the winter. I remove the battery from the boot, place it on a couple of 2X4s in my warm basement with the tender hooekd up. In the spring I know it's ready to go.
I've also got a '67 MGB and the LBC (Little British Car) community is very big on easyily accessable battery isolation switches to isolate the battery from the carwhen not in use. Too many stories of old MGs & Triumphs bursting into flames while sitting with the ignition off. That would suck if the car were parked in your garage. Maybe you could write this off to Lucas electronics and the history of crappy british automotive electrical engineering - but just in case, both my Saab and MGB are getting switches installed as winter projects.
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