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nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:13 am Post subject: Battery Chargers and Maintainers |
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I've received some direct emails from folks who were upset
about what they perceived as a poo-pooing of someone's work
in describing the current market choices in battery chargers.
I've not read the article and what I wrote was not directed
at the author nor toward any of the products he described.
Let's look at it this way:
Suppose you get up some early Sunday morning back in the
days of 12 VHF channels on TV and while sipping your coffee,
every stop while flipping through the channels presents you
with some guy who is VERY enthusiastic about HIS
particular fishing product.
You are persuasively "educated" on the merits of various means
by which aquatic life can be extracted from the wild. You
might have Mr. Ronco pitching the pocket fisherman on one
channel. Somebody else may be trying to convince you to take
out a mortgage on your first born and join the ranks of
the crabbers in the Bearing Sea. Certainly the range of
fishing gear and the applications they address can cover
a huge range of capability and cost.
On none of those infomercials will it be suggested that
you establish design goals, budgets and utilization
profiles that allow you to judge return on investment
for your purchase. Indeed, there are many $20K bass-rigs
sitting in folks back yards where the owner wishes he
had is money back!
Every one of those purveyors of marvelous fishing products
can go through his 1/2 hour pitch without ever having
lied to you. Each product will perform as advertised.
But since his goal is to convince you that you need his
product, the last thing he wants to do is suggest tools
for decision making that put his sales at risk.
Further, you may well find that the most practical
solution to a fishing task isn't even offered on T.V.
Your kid may come home some day with a string he
caught using a hook, personally captured bait, 20'
of monofilament and a wine cork as a float. "Lookit
here dad. Caught these guys off the 21st street bridge
with less than 50 cents worth of gear!" I can
confidently suggest that the kid's return on investment
was pretty good.
Certainly the battery charging marketplace is flooded
with the ability to do a great deal. Jelly-bean
microprocessors and compact power electronics has
opened a floodgate of opportunities. Just check though
the patents on ideas for charging and testing batteries.
However, the bottom line for getting good utility out
of our battery purchases remains unchanged for nearly
a century. No matter how many bells and whistles are
built into your battery chargers and/or test tools,
it's still up to YOU to set goals and craft processes
by which those goals will be met at an expenditure of $time$
you're willing to pay. The elegant solution is
invariably the one with highest benefit/cost ratio.
Quite often, the supper-whippy, platinum plated battery
charger is DEPENDED upon to make some poor sap's battery
last forever. The sad truths are discovered and the
dependence proven irrational when a battery fails
to perform at some critical time in the future.
Nobody's enthusiasm for selling you a battery charger
will replace or even slightly relieve YOU of the need
for understanding how YOUR battery does or does not
work and tailoring YOUR processes and tools to the
task for meeting YOUR alternator-out endurance goals.
Bob . . .
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( . . . a long habit of not thinking )
( a thing wrong, gives it a superficial )
( appearance of being right . . . )
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( -Thomas Paine 1776- )
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JOE RONCO
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:48 am Post subject: Battery Chargers and Maintainers |
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BOB: Just a point of clarification, the Mr. Ronco that you referred to is really Ron Popeil who made a fortune selling the Pocket Fisherman, the Veg-O-Matic and Rotisserie Grill among many others. I wish that his name was Ronco and that I was related to him for obvious reasons. I don’t know how many times I have been asked about being related.
Joe Ronco
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mprather(at)spro.net
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:44 am Post subject: Battery Chargers and Maintainers |
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Wow. I feel I am in heady company.. I noticed a recently that Al Franken
was posting on here with interesting electrical questions and thought
about how small this world is sometimes.. Now we have someone tied to
infomercial genius.  (I understand, you _aren't_ related to Ron
Popeil.. Just having a little fun. Then again, maybe you should try
to capitalize on the possible confusion. )
Matt-
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[quote] BOB: Just a point of clarification, the Mr. Ronco that you referred to is
really Ron Popeil who made a fortune selling the Pocket Fisherman, the
Veg-O-Matic and Rotisserie Grill among many others. I wish that his name
was
Ronco and that I was related to him for obvious reasons. I don't know how
many times I have been asked about being related.
Joe Ronco
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