Well after my diehard dh15a (rebranded Schumacher I believe) has been performing poorly for me, cooking my batteries with as much as 16.2+v during bulk charge I ended up finding a really nice automatic charger.
I got a Pro-Logix PL2320, which has tons of features for the price. It does 20/10/2 amp charging, both 6/12v, agm,gel,wet cells and is even temperature compensated!
I watched carefully as it charged an older 58R Exide based battery from 2009 that has been having some issues charging. It did not ever go above 14.7v in bulk mode which is about perfect. It successfully recovered the battery where my other charger would not and went from not being able to start the car to putting out about 400 cranking amps back from the dead.
Was also very impressed with how quiet it is even charging at 20 amps. It is fan cooled but it never got warm for me.
It also has something I've never seen before which is an exercise mode, where after finalizing the charge it puts a load on the battery and restarts. It will do this every 4 days or whenever the voltage gets to a certain point. That would make this a great battery maintainer that can be hooked up indefinitely.
I am really excited about it, I wish I had more batteries to charge.
I didn't even know about these chargers until I started looking for a temperature compensated charger, which is very hard in this price range. They are made by Clore Automotive which makes those jump and carry booster packs, I almost bought one of those before too and thought that's all they made.
If anyone is looking for a nice charger or maintainer I would highly recommend this based on my testing so far. It's really light years ahead of the store bought junk I've been using in the past.
Here's what it looks like.
I was looking at their website and they even have models available with a 100 amp jump start assistance mode, pretty cool stuff.
I got a Pro-Logix PL2320, which has tons of features for the price. It does 20/10/2 amp charging, both 6/12v, agm,gel,wet cells and is even temperature compensated!
I watched carefully as it charged an older 58R Exide based battery from 2009 that has been having some issues charging. It did not ever go above 14.7v in bulk mode which is about perfect. It successfully recovered the battery where my other charger would not and went from not being able to start the car to putting out about 400 cranking amps back from the dead.
Was also very impressed with how quiet it is even charging at 20 amps. It is fan cooled but it never got warm for me.
It also has something I've never seen before which is an exercise mode, where after finalizing the charge it puts a load on the battery and restarts. It will do this every 4 days or whenever the voltage gets to a certain point. That would make this a great battery maintainer that can be hooked up indefinitely.
I am really excited about it, I wish I had more batteries to charge.
I didn't even know about these chargers until I started looking for a temperature compensated charger, which is very hard in this price range. They are made by Clore Automotive which makes those jump and carry booster packs, I almost bought one of those before too and thought that's all they made.
If anyone is looking for a nice charger or maintainer I would highly recommend this based on my testing so far. It's really light years ahead of the store bought junk I've been using in the past.
Here's what it looks like.
I was looking at their website and they even have models available with a 100 amp jump start assistance mode, pretty cool stuff.
