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Default RAC Portable Power Station, need DC adaptor spec

In article ,
Terry Fields wrote:
These days battery chargers are very sophisticated things in how they
treat batteries. If your friend has more than one battery to care for,
an Optimate or Accumate charger might be a good idea, but they aren't
cheap.


No need to pay silly prices for a sophisticated battery charger. Lidl and
Aldi in the UK both do similar ones for about 14 gbp. They pulse charge a
flat battery, change to a normal charge, then switch to a maintenance one.
Get the same thing with a 'name' on it and you'll pay four times as much.

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