I did a search for an answer to this question but couldn't come up with one, so here goes:
Earlier this week I rode my bike to work and stupidly forgot to turn the ignition off when I got there. Needless to say, when I came out at the end of the day, the battery was dead. I was able to jump start it and get home. I keep it plugged into a battery tender all the time when it's parked in the garage and haven't had any problems with it sense. Hopefully I didn't do any major damage to the battery.
My question is this: I have the battery tender cable permanently connected directly to the battery. The battery tender also came with alligator clips for temporarily connecting a battery. Since the battery is such a pain to get to, could I carry the alligator clip connection with me, plug it into the battery mounted cables and then connect the alligator clips to the jumper cables and jumpstart the battery that way? Or would the positive and negative cables be getting crossed somewhere along the way? I hope that makes sense. Would it work?
Thanks.
Earlier this week I rode my bike to work and stupidly forgot to turn the ignition off when I got there. Needless to say, when I came out at the end of the day, the battery was dead. I was able to jump start it and get home. I keep it plugged into a battery tender all the time when it's parked in the garage and haven't had any problems with it sense. Hopefully I didn't do any major damage to the battery.
My question is this: I have the battery tender cable permanently connected directly to the battery. The battery tender also came with alligator clips for temporarily connecting a battery. Since the battery is such a pain to get to, could I carry the alligator clip connection with me, plug it into the battery mounted cables and then connect the alligator clips to the jumper cables and jumpstart the battery that way? Or would the positive and negative cables be getting crossed somewhere along the way? I hope that makes sense. Would it work?
Thanks.