I have a Schumacher 612A-PE Starter Charger for home use. I have a separate charger on board for my AGM batteries. the home charger works on 6V and 12 V batteries, and can give you 50 amp starter current if you can't wait for your dead car battery to charge. I've had it for years, and highly recommend it.
Alan Bergen On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 9:48 AM nausetbeach--- via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation for a good at home battery charger? My > charger died earlier this week. It was a “smart” charger made by > Schumacher but it never seemed to really get the batteries fully charged. > I never could find out the charging parameters. Having a charger with an > option which can force an equalization step seems like a necessary > capability. I have flooded batteries and do not see changing type in the > near future. > > > > By way of background, last fall I asked about storing batteries over the > winter – Rob A, Marek, Ken H and others all recommended leaving them on > board, and Ken sent a link to an article on RC’s / Marine How To website > about battery storage, which was very helpful. In that article RC strongly > suggested the batteries should be at full charge and they should be fine > come spring. I had zero confidence my battery charger [a home / garage > charger, do not have an on board charger or even any AC on board] would be > up to the task so once again I brought the batteries home. > > > > Thanks, > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.paypal.me/stumurray__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4wqWOXrW7EgZLvZckgUIcWlpzmxG4-ah4DXQ66ZFb29fEKz1OBc4oKutPzYdb4dY51g$ > >
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