Personally I would wire a pig tail directly off of the battery and plug your charger into that. At least that's what I do.

 

Thanks. Yeah that’s likely what I’ll do, just figured I’d try their quick connect solution first since it was there.

 

Sure handy to use that plug and not have to remove a seat. By your description it sounds like an electrical field transfer/interference. Might look to see with the plug wiring runs next to the speaker wiring. If so move them as far apart as you can. And/or wrap the plug wire with tin foil to isolate it/or wrap the speaker wire under the dash. Sounds like the cycling of the charger is setting up an input to the speaker.

 

Sure handle to use that plug and not have to remove a seat. By your description it sounds like a electrical field transfer/interference. Might look to see with the plug wiring runs next to the speaker wiring. If so move them as far apart as you can. And/or wrap the plug wire with tin foil to isolate it/or wrap the speaker wire under the dash. Sounds like the cycling of the charger is setting up an input to the speaker.

I’ll try that! Appreciate the help.

 

My battery tender came with 2 ways to connect it: a wire with 2 clamps.. red and black and a connector. The other is a pig tail with a connector and cap with ring terminals on the other end. I secured the latter on the battery and zip tied the other end just to the left of the seat so that I can get to it easily.

 

Guys be careful with these things my neighbor lost his new truck, garage and bunch of other stuff over a trickle charger about a month ago. I was running two, one on a truck and another on a lawn mower I now use them intermittently and not constant.

 

Interesting - details please?

 

I‘ve used Battery Tender brand for as long as I can remember. Currently have 6-8 charging ”Tending“ vehicles everywhere on my site.

correction: I just checked, there 10 of those little green boxes here, I must have stock in battery tender 😆

 

Same here I have Battery Tender on six vehicles. Never had a problem.

 

Something is not quite right here - dry, frozen, depleted, battery perhaps?

I use these on all my vehicles and haven't had a problem.

Battery Tender® 12V, 1.25 Amp High Efficiency Battery Charger

 

Something is not quite right here - dry, frozen, depleted, battery perhaps?

I use these on all my vehicles and haven't had a problem.

Battery Tender® 12V, 1.25 Amp High Efficiency Battery Charger

If it was a lithium battery and he used that model regular BT Charger on it that would explain it catching on fire. BT makes a different model charger for their lithium batteries.

 

Or a pinched shorted out cord. Such low amps, hard to believe they would cause a fire. They shut themselves off when out of range of a safe battery charge.

 

Or charger too close to battery and ignited the hydrogen.

 

I have had the tinder jr get oddly warm. To the point where I don’t trust it. As for the noise. At one point my old machine did the same thing. Definitely something isn’t quite rite. Hard to say exactly what it could be. I’d go threw and check the connections from the ride command to the speaker where the noise comes from. The pigtail is cheap enough. I’d order one from Amazon and directly wire it. See if that fixes it. As for leaving the tinder plugged in. I personally don’t. I plug it in every couple weeks. If you find you have a parasitic draw. Get a high quality disconnect. If it’s under warranty. Have the Polaris knuckle heads figure it out. Good luck.

 

Iv been using the battery tender brand a couple years and no problems even have there solar charger on my boat that sits outside

 

Battery chargers do occasionally fail and when they do, sometimes they send way to much voltage or current to a battery and eventually the battery can catch on fire. I have seen this happen personally. I know a man who lost his boat because the charger on the trolling batteries went bad and caused a fire. For this reason I personally never leave my charger plugged up on my boat or anything else long term.

Even though its not a charger, its the same principle. I had a truck where the voltage regulator failed in my alternator and my battery actually caught on fire from being severely overcharged going down the road. It's like anything else electronic, it can short internally and cause a fire. This is not the norm but does happen.

YMMV.

 

So I do not know what brand it was but I do know the guy takes care of his stuff. He does plumbing as a side gig and is very knowledgeable with tools and so forth. So his truck was parked in a garage with a mother in law suite attached. I would say the garage was about 8 years old. His truck had around 4000 miles on it and he does not drive it that much. He has a work truck he drives most of the time. He told my father personally the trickle charger started the fire. He lost garage, truck, tools, mower and green mountain grills. He sells them as well. That is all I know as far as specifics. When I see him I will ask him. But it was enough to scare me a little and enough to make me unplug mine. He lives two miles from me and I could see the smoke from the fire when it happened.

 

i'm wondering how using that dash accessory plug even works for charging? mine is disconnected when the key is off.
i keep a small solar charger clamped to the battery posts.

 

So after talking with my Dad again this morning he said it was the charger or the battery. Said his wife was home and heard something explode(probably battery) and when she looked outside flames started quickly.

 

Battery Tenders (brand name) are not trickle chargers/float chargers. I bought a couple of float chargers a while back; threw them out after they killed a couple batteries. The Battery Tender is a smart charger.

 

So are you saying that brand is safe? Are they safe to leave on a vehicle? What does a smart charger do or how are they different? That is the brand I use.

 

Have 6 working right now. Have used them for years from RZR to lawn mower, vehicle batteries. So what's the problem. Have worked great and saved me the cost of many batteries. Yes, Battery Tender. The first such device on the market. One has to watch "smart chargers" as they can over charge and destroy a battery.