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Old 01-26-2018, 11:14 AM   #43
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I have one lying around, check my this thread
http://www.camaro6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=513874
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Old 12-10-2018, 09:48 AM   #44
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Any new thoughts on keeping the battery charged over the winter?

I can press one of my old Battery Tenders into duty or pick up one of the CTEK 3300s pretty easily.
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Old 05-10-2021, 05:33 PM   #45
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This may be a dumb question but where are you guys hooking up the charger to? Direct to the battery or to the connections under the hood? Thanks for any advice, I have never had a car that I parked for the winter only motorcycles.

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Old 05-10-2021, 10:47 PM   #46
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This is what I have. There are terminals in the engine compartment that I hooked into. Worked like a charm. He fired right up after a long winter’s nap.
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Old 05-11-2021, 03:16 AM   #47
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I went with the Noco to over the Ctek. Charges more types of batteries.

Works like a charm


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Old 05-11-2021, 06:26 AM   #48
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I always keep my camaro plugged in to a tender.

But there are risks. Several years ago we had a near lightening strike. Surge came thru the house, and thru the tender plugged into my C6 corvette. Did like $3300 damage to the car as it blew up the BCM, and two ABS sensors. Completely smoked the battery tender, I mean charred burnt carnage!

So now if I even think there is chance of t-storm...I unplug the cars.
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Old 05-11-2021, 09:07 AM   #49
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I have connected directly to battery, just made a small hole in the cover to feed the end through, can pull out like a foot of cord when needed and tuck in out of the way when not being used
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Old 05-11-2021, 09:21 AM   #50
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Any new thoughts on keeping the battery charged over the winter?

I can press one of my old Battery Tenders into duty or pick up one of the CTEK 3300s pretty easily.
FYI, shortly after posting this in 2018, I picked p a CTEK (56-158) MULTI US 3300 for my 2016 2SS. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FQBWCY

As someone pointed out earlier, CTEK makes the chargers that GM sells for the Camaro, so I tried to get one that appeared to be as close to that as I could. Not sure how well I did on that part, but here we are in 2021 now and my original battery is still going strong. The car sits in a 40° garage all winter, plugged into the CTEK.

BTW, the CTEK comes with a nice pigtail with (what do you call them?) the round hole ends so you can bolt the pigtail to the battery securely. On the other end of the pigtail is a nice connector that only goes on one way, to attach to the lead from the charger body. I find that the rubber gasket around the trunk opening is forgiving enough that I can close the trunk lid over the charger lead for the winter. I have the pigtail coming out the edge of the little carpet door near the battery. When not needed, I just stuff the pigtail back in there. Plenty of room.
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