Harrop 2300 supercharger to Optimiser 6500

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Arrived home after a week away without any maintenance charge going on , and must have caught @mudski disorder as battery was at 0 volts. I tried to couple it in parallel to get a base voltage of at least 10V - didn't work, even with thwo chargers in play. This is one of the Optima Blue units and first time this has happened. Anyway rang up Battery World where I bought it 2 yrs ago - 'bring it down, we will have a look at it', so big shout out, they put it on their commercial charger and it started to take charge so left it with them for the day.

They rang me at 3pm and said it started out at 25amp rate and was now sitting at 2.5amps, so its good to go, just discharged badly. Anyway, I decided to buy another 10amp charger as they didn't want to charge me for the reconditioning, to replace the Cetec 10amp unit that 5 yrs old and gets very hot when charging. Decided to also buy a mechanical terminal isolator for use n the neg terminal, rated at 1200CCA, so fitted it all up this arvo. Big shout out to this branch, helpful, not pushing anything, recommended items of best value, give them a go if in the area, they have a wide range of stock.

Interesting though, they used to do a heap of the Optima range until maybe 5 yrs ago when the manufacturing base changed to Mexico. Since then they had so many batteries returned under warranty so only hold a couple as emerg stock for like for like replacement. I asked what he could recommend and it was a local made battery in Australia, $200 less than the Optima, has the dual terminals as well.