BetaB4 wrote:
Thanks all.

Based on what everyone wrote, I've been looking for an "automatic"
battery charger. I checked Harbor Freight and one person suggested.

Here's the instruction manual for one Harbor Freight battery charger:

http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals...6999/66783.pdf

On Pages 8 and 9 of the manual, it talks about not leaving the charger
on and the possibility of the battery overheating with the charger on.
So, I'm a little confused. Does the automatic shutoff actually work or
not?


I think the problem is that the Chinese engineers hired an English major
to write the manual, and the author tried to make sense of it in a hurry.

Page 9 makes it sound as if the 10A mode is not regulated. That's the
one where you have to keep an eye on it.

It says in the auto mode (apparently 2A), you can go away, and it will
turn on only as needed.

I'm curious about the note of Page 8: "This charger is not recommended
for batteries with a built in Hydrometer eye. The reading of the
built-in eye will conflict with ammeter readings."

I imagine what it means is that you should ignore the eye while charging
because tiny gas bubbles from charging could make the eye read falsely.