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OptiMate 4
OptiMate 4 - State of the art automatic battery optimisation. The world's best!
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£46.80 + VAT & Carriage Click here for pdf by tecMATE Recommended by virtually every major motorcycle manufacturer. 2008 MCN Product of the Year! 2009 British Dealer News Best Retail Product! 9 Manufacturer Endorsements - 13 years development – over 1,300,000 happy customers

OptiMate 4 - the unique 6-step battery optimiser specially designed for modern 12V starter batteries from 2.5 to 50 Amp-hours capacity. Ideal for motorcycles, ATVs, jet-skis etc.

Since it's launch in 1995, the unique OptiMate has received worldwide acclaim as an outstanding compact automatic charger, maintainer and recoverer for 12V starter batteries on motorcycles, ATVs, Jetskis, ride-on mowers and other similar seasonally used vehicles, as well as for deep-cycle batteries used in back-up power supply applications. Over the last 13 years, OptiMate has been continually refined and improved.

Now OptiMate 4 takes the proven OptiMate interactive charging programme even further – features include:

· Diagnosis of deep-discharge or light sulphation; automatic recovery phase with precisely controlled parameters to recover many neglected batteries, even from as low as 2 Volts. In really difficult cases the interactive programme gives the battery a “Turbo Recovery” charge.

· Multi-stage automatic charging programme monitors and controls both voltage and current while charging the battery to ensure optimum charge for the battery, without any risk of over-charging. OptiMate 4 is totally safe even for long-term connection.

· Automatic double-check ensures that the battery is fully charged before switching over to maintenance (float charge) mode. If the check indicates that the monitored signals suggesting full charge were premature, the charger reverts to the main charging stage and continues this procedure until the battery is definitely fully charged.

· Hourly checks (in maintenance mode) for any signs that the battery is not able to hold its charge, or that it is being drained by something connected to it. If all is well, the green LED indicates after the first of these hourly checks. With OptiMate 4, five test results can be indicated and are continually updated. This avoids the situation where a one-off power drain (e.g. alarm) causes a red LED indication indefinitely. In this way, OptiMate 4 continues to test & maintain your battery indefinitely, displaying a real-time battery condition test result. Should a power drain or defective battery be detected, the red LED will indicate a "suspect" condition but the charging circuit will continue to support the battery until disconnected.

· Automatic cancellation of charging programme when mains power fails. On restoration of mains power the battery is automatically re-assessed and the charging programme appropriate to the battery status is immediately restarted.

· Automatic resetting of charging programme in case of accidental loss of contact between charger and battery terminals. If this happens, the circuit will automatically sense the fact and it will disengage - the charge programme will start afresh on reconnection.

· Now includes IP64 protection against water ingress.

· OptiMate 4 is totally automatic and fully protected against user errors. There are no switches. Short-circuiting the charger output resets the programme, without sparks or blown fuses. Affordable, compact, intelligent and forgiving of errors, OptiMate 4is the perfect tool for regular or long-term maintenance of batteries not in daily use.

Because of OptiMate's huge success over the past decade, there has been a deluge of copycat imitators. It is worth mentioning that OptiMate is unique and that all imitations to date are flawed in one way or the other. Some have lots of bells & whistles and look very impressive, but when you look what it actually does by way of charging the battery, the picture isn't so good. Batteries can be overcharged to the point of damage, or undercharged so they do not work. Attempts to copy OptiMate’s recovery features haven’t bothered to include the built-in safety features that prevent OptiMate damaging a bike’s electronics. Battery "testing" can show a totally discharged battery to be good and vice-versa. All of the imitators without exception cannot recover a sulphated battery, despite what they say on the box. How can they get away with this, you may well ask. Well, read the words carefully and you will see claims like "recovers deep-discharged batteries" or in some cases, just ""recovers discharged batteries". The problem is that there is no exact specification for what a "deep-discharged battery" actually is so they get away with it. We now use the term "sulphated battery" to try and distinguish between the truth and these dubious sales claims, but even that is not an exact state.

At the end of the day, you have to decide why the likes of Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Triumph, Yamaha and many other manufacturers worldwide all recommend OptiMate but none of the other imitators. And if you seriously think that a plug in the wall power supply will do the same thing for a couple of quid, all we can say is when your battery is wrecked, please come back and read this again.

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