Anyone familiar with block heaters?

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Anyone familiar with block heaters?

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11-07-2011, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Orv

The PO of my car installed a small battery trickle charger and wired it to the same cord as the block heater, so plugging the car in both preheats the engine and tops off the battery. I thought that was pretty clever.

Quite clever.
Is there any downside to trickle charging a battery constantly?

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