[AT] OT Battery Chargers

[Louis]

About 7 or 8 years ago, I bought a charger from NAPA.  You had to move
the buttons to set the charge rate and voltage.  It was a decent
charger, except the battery couldn't be below 4 volt for it to turn on
and work.  There were times that I had to "trick" it into working so it
would charge a dead battery.  That was accomplished with jumpers and a
spare battery.   I wouldn't have bought the charger, if I had known that
fact about it.  It was packaged in one of those clear plastic packs that
you have to really work on to get open.  When I buy items like that
anymore, I insist on looking at the directions and specs before I decide
to buy or not.

Lou

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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:28 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Battery Chargers


I am new to this thread so sorry if i mised something.

I recently purchased a 1.5 volt maintenance charger (Sears and certainly
not 
my favorite store) and found great success with this model.  It charges
and 
maintains either 6 or 12 volt batteries and can be a portable unit or a 
permanantly installed.  I like this model over all others I found
because it 
is well designed and "IT WORKS!!"  $29

It seems all the new computerized chargers cannot identify a dead
battery. 
Both of my automatic chargers say a dead battery is fully charged when
in 
fact it is dead.  I go to my Big charger for flat batteries and "jump
start" 
them at 50+ amps for a short time. After this, an automatic charger
seems to 
work ok.

Kreig




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From: "WF Smith" <WarrenSmith at PalmettoBuilders.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:48 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] OT Battery Chargers


>> I bought one of the larger models at Wal-Mart last year, and I have 
>> to say that I am not overly enthused about its performance. Unless I 
>> am doing something wrong, the "computer" doesn't seem to be able to 
>> understand the difference between a 6 volt and a 12 volt battery, nor

>> does it seem to know what to do with a completely flat battery or 
>> either voltage - contrary to what was written on the outside carton. 
>> It also will not overcharge a battery, once it is finished. It seems 
>> to do well enough with normal 12 volt batteries that just need a 
>> charge, but I didn't spend $100 to get just an ordinary battery 
>> charger.
>>
>> Maybe I will read the directions again...
>
> Glad to hear someone else say that. I can't get mine to work on a 6v
> battery
> at all.
>
> Warren
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