When You Charge Batteries Right, They Work Right

Just like your car’s engine, your battery needs the right fuel to perform at its best.

Automotive enthusiasts now have more battery options to choose from than ever, and that diversification in available platforms all stems from the fact that drivers are disappointed with traditional battery performance, especially at a time when reliance on reliable on-board power has expanded like never before.

Of course, everyone automatically blames the battery. Why can’t they just perform like they should? After all, if you add a performance kit to your car, you get more performance, right? Higher compression means more horsepower, right?

Well, actually it needs more than just that performance kit—it needs a performance exhaust, it needs a filter that makes that engine breathe better, but most important of all, it needs higher-octane fuel. Without it, that add-on kit looks good in the parking lot but will not perform so well out on the road.

So, why is a high-performance battery expected to simply perform without extra care or better charging? To make a battery work right, you have to charge and maintain it right.

Lithium batteries are the new high-performance solution for those car owners who “hate” the fact that their car struggles to start on a cold morning. Spring is a dreaded time, as more often than not that “old” battery did not make it through winter.

The real question is “why?,” and generally the answer is that it was never charged and maintained properly.

Many people’s response is that it is time for a new battery, and why not one of those new, high- performance lithium batteries?

Lithium batteries deliver four times more cranking amps per Amp-hour than their lead-acid equivalent—the battery it will soon replace. Plus, lithium batteries do not “sulphate” or lose power over the winter if left semi-charged (recommended at least 50% or higher), but, and this is a big but, if they are NOT CONNECTED to the vehicle’s circuitry over winter.

If a lithium battery is left connected over winter without proper maintenance, well, that would be a hard and expensive mistake—that battery will die faster than the lead-acid battery it replaced.

Why? Your car’s “always on” circuitry draws the same power from the battery, never mind what type of battery it is. Lithium batteries have on average three to four times less Amp-hour capacity than the lead-acid battery they replace, i.e. it is three to four times smaller, so at slow discharge caused by the car’s “always on” circuitry it will be flat three to four times sooner.

So, it stands to reason that if you want reliable access to the high cranking amps of your lithium battery, you must maintain it with a lithium-specific battery charger—it needs that “high-octane” charger to perform as advertised.

The OptiMate Lithium line of chargers is designed to be the right “high-octane” charger for your lithium battery, which is why Honda, Acura, Yamaha, Pagani, Aston Martin, Kawasaki and more globally recommend OptiMate Lithium chargers, as well as KTM, Husqvarna and American Honda, who brand their own OptiMate Lithium chargers.

Ask esteemed international battery companies like Full Spectrum Power, E3, Super B, Antigravity and Earth-X why their “go-to” charger is OptiMate Lithium and they’ll tell you it is because it makes their batteries work right and their warranty return rate negligible.

OptiMate Lithium guarantees battery performance—and for those who forgot to charge, it will save that battery from as low as 0.5V.

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