[AT] Battery Charger recommendations

[Dean VP]

Steve,

No, I did not know that.  The Sears Die Hard Battery Chargers have features
and specs which are quite different than any Schumacher Charger being sold
today.  Sears does sell Schumacher branded chargers as well.  Are you 100%
confident the Sears Diehard chargers are made by Schumacher?  I have not
found any Schumacher charger that has the same  features and specs that the
Sears Die Hard Gold has. And the sears warranty is 3 years where Schumacher
is  2 years.   I have received one good reference on the Sears Diehard
chargers and another good reference for a Schumacher SE 4022.  But all other
Schumacher's I have received some really bad references on.  I'm a bit
stunned. 

Dean VP
Snohomish, WA 98290

It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. 

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Subject: Re: [AT] Battery Charger recommendations

Dean VP wrote:
> Back to the original subject.  I happened to stop in O'Reilley's Auto 
> Parts Yesterday and they had the Schumacher SE 4020 200 Amp Battery 
> charger engine starter unit on sale at $119.00 . That is $60 lower 
> cost than other prices I've seen elsewhere for that unit. Even at that 
> price I'm still leaning toward the Sears Die Hard Gold  which is $179 
> because I just have heard too much negative stuff about Schumacher 
> chargers.  I have been able to find out that the Sears Manual stated 
> to not run the starter over 5 seconds when on the 250 Amp setting, The 
> wait 2 or 3 minutes before hitting the starter again.  I haven't found 
> out what the duty cycle is on the others yet. One distinct advantage that
the Sears DieHard Gold has is it has an automatic
> thermal overload shutoff if you try to use the 250 Amps too long.    Then
it
> resets automatically when it returns to acceptable temperature. I 
> suspect that is one of the reasons they have a 3 year warranty and 
> others are 2 years.  Napa is selling some kind of private label 
> charger that looks a bit like an older Schumacher and doesn't have 
> very good specs and is priced way up there in the mid $300's. I 
> haven't figured out what merit's that price yet. However, in the past 
> I have found Napa's pricing to be higher than others. I suspect that is so
they can discount to repair shops.
> 
> I got totally diverted for awhile by a failure of our full house water 
> filtering system.  Changed filters and the thing started leaking like
> sieve.  Found the O-Ring Seal was missing and nowhere to be found.   Have
no
> idea where it went.  Then made a trip to Loews, Sears, the brand of 
> water filter, Home Depot, Aqua Source and finally the only good 
> hardware store
> (McLendon's) we have left in a 50 mile radius, had exactly what I needed.
> 120 miles of chasing later I now have a non-leaking water filtering 
> system in the house.  I hate it when the original seller of the 
> system, Sears, didn't even have repair parts for it.  In fact the 
> in-store Sears people didn't even know what it was, believe it or not. 
> However, the filter was probably older than they were.  It was brand 
> new in 1991.  It's only 25 years old. :-)  I would have replaced it if 
> I could have found one that fit in the same piping setup.  I wasn't 
> about to take on plumbing the whole thing over. But we now have water 
> back in the house and the boss is happy again.  Didn't realize how 
> annoying the lack of running water is.  We are spoiled.
> 
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. 
> 

You do know that the DieHard chargers are made by Schumacher. Have been
since the late 90's.


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Steve W.
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