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Today I received a pair of 500 amp NATO connectors for a jump start kit. It was a bit over-kill but using 6 feet of 16/2 SO cord and one of the connectors changed out the plug on the BatteryTender station. The M35A2 is fully charged using a 2-pin NATO adapter and two of the M923A2 trucks are...
11.26.2014 - SIDE NOTE: I temporarily hard wired the BatteryTender.com charger to the batteries in the M35A2 vehicle just to verify the charger will turn “GREEN” when the batteries are fully charged. While posting my comments the charger did turn “GREEN” and I have a full 25 VDC at the battery...
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Today I noticed after 5 days of “charging” the Battery Tender still said my batteries where not fully charged on the M35A2 I was testing it on first. I called the BatteryTender.com Company and spoke with the owner. We did some testing and discovered the NATO charging...
The J-6362/U Hummer Charging Cable is a standard NATO single pin charging cable with a built in fuse. This cable can be used for battery maintaining and/or connected to accessories. It uses a standard 3 pin connector found on 120VAC computer and battery equipment. You are going to cut it off…...
This is the NATO slave cable adapter. You can find these on the internet (I am not going to promote any one website or person selling these items, do some research) and have it shipped to your door. The NATO slave adapter is used to simply convert from the older style 2-pin auxiliary vehicle...
WARNING: 11.26.2014 - REVISED COMMENT: DO NOT PURCHASE THE J-6362/U NATO SLAVE CABLE CURRENTLY BEING SOLD ON EBAY! THE CENTER PIN IS NOT THE CORRECT DIAMETER FOR THE ORIGINAL SINGLE PIN NATO CONNECTORS ORIGINALLY INSTALLED ON THE M923 M939 M35 VEHICLES. READ ALL COMMENTS ON THIS PROJECT BEFORE...
RE: External 24 VDC Battery Maintaining Station Project
Each year I store my vehicles for the winter months, remove the batteries and start a ritual of swapping 12VDC battery maintainers from bank to bank of batteries each week. This year I built a small 24VDC battery maintainer station that...