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Martin Eastburn Martin Eastburn is offline
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Default Do battery chargers mostly suck, in your experience?

Right.

I have an old school, run over and bent charger. Heavy due to a
Transformer. It charges.

I have a new school, plastic wonder and Electronic. Light as a box.
It 'measures' the battery and trashes a battery when the old one fixes
it. It will fix sulfur plates by using AC charging. Hard to beat a
transformer.

Martin

On 4/25/2016 12:50 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:59:19 -0000 (UTC), Roger Blake
wrote:

On 2016-04-24, Ignoramus7945 wrote:
My experience with them has been generally negative. The worst are the
so called "smart" chargers.


My best experiences have been with old-school "dumb" chargers. I have
a 4-amp model purchased over 40 years that is still going strong, works
every time. Recently I purchased a modern charger but it would not work
worth a damn even after returning for a replacement. So I went back to
the old standby and picked up another similar charger at a flea market.
That one also works great.

"New" and "improved" are not always the same thing.


Hear Hear!!