Thanks to all who replied....
A few answers to various questions:
The battery is good. I have had it tested three times: twice with small
hand held units at two different FLAPS and once on some unit that took
an hour to fully test.
The tender I am using is a Battery Tender "junior" that is connectted
directly to the battery using alligator clamps. I will most likely
switch to the directly wired pig tails.
Upon closer inspection I found that the car's negative battery terminal
wire was slightly lose. This was probably causing the hot condition at
the wall plug.
The alternator is a one wire GM unit with less than 5000 miles on it. I
suspect that the alt is the weak link in my car's charging system here
as I am no longer happy with the mounting (pulley slightly off perfect
allignment) arrangment. I will be fixing this soon.
Thanks again for all replies.
Tim
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Tim wrote:
> I bought a battery tender about a week ago. After each drive since I
> have hooked it up and the next day the little light has always been
> green. I had the Roadster out last night with headlights on and an
> auxillary power jack running my garmin. Today, about 18 hours since
> hooking up the battery tender, the light is still red (not that
> surprising I guess) but the plug end is very hot.
>
> Anyone else experience this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
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