On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 13:13:36 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Leon Fisk" wrote in message
news
Probably old news but I see in their latest monthly flier two new
battery chargers:

https://www.harborfreight.com/4-amp-...ner-63350.html

https://www.harborfreight.com/2815-a...ger-63299.html

They look interesting and I would probably get one if I didn't
already
have a similar CTEK Charger. The Maintenance mode isn't explained
for
either one. You would have to play with one to find out what it does
while analyzing the output. I looked at all the comments and didn't
find
anything there either. They claim to have a reconditioning mode for
desulphating, but how it does this isn't explained...

The lovely CPU they refer to is likely a comparatively expensive one
(costing nearly $0.43, ah reckon.) compared to their


I'm trying to learn to quickly determine and sometimes improve the
condition of old and second-hand batteries with my home made metered,
adjustable chargers and the HF carbon pile load. A commercial charger
that doesn't display battery voltage and charging current won't help
me.

The first didn't show current and the second showed current OR
voltage, but not both onscreen. Feh!


This partly explains how, using a Harbor Freight manual charger and a
Variac:
https://forums.goodsamclub.com/index...print/true.cfm
"The CONTROL that a VARIAC affords a transformer charger battery
charger makes the most "expensive" so called smart-charger
equalization mode a Marx Brothers farce. So-called smart chargers
cannot hope to accomplish what a human being can with a VARIAC,
battery charger, digital voltmeter and an accurate hydrometer."

Karl and Harpo? So, do you agree with him? If so, why do you suppose
nobody had put out a good, adaptable, smart type of charger, at any
price? I don't see a whole lot of difference between cheap and
expensive plug-in chargers, and not much adaptability until you get up
into the better solar controller smarts, but I'm just learning the
ropes, too.


"Shore power" is a boating term that means electricity from the grid,
instead of the boat's generator or battery.

Loved the "when burning Chanél No 5 priced gasoline" comment.

--
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
-- Sir Winston Churchill