[AT] Battery Charger recommendations

Charlie V 1cdevill at gmail.com
Sun May 1 18:14:52 PDT 2016


Best of luck with the new charger and the knee surgery, Dean.  My Sears
charger on wheels must be 25 years young and is working fine after much
use.  Some days I wish I could have bought the new hip at Sears.🤔🤔

Charlie V.

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Dean VP <deanvp at att.net> wrote:

> Sears put the Diehard Gold 250A Charger on sale today. The price dropped
> from $179.99 to $161. Xx And change and that caused me to get serious about
> purchasing it.  Found out I had $7.00 credits as well so the sale price and
> credit zeroes out more than the sales tax so I ended up with a unit for
> less
> than the original price including tax shipped to my door.  Hadn't really
> finished evaluating chargers but up till today hadn't found anything I like
> better than the Diehard Gold 250A.  If I don't like it I can return it.
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
> It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Dean VP
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 10:55 AM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> Subject: Re: [AT] Battery Charger recommendations
>
> Steve,
>
> Thanks for the additional information. The Sears DieHard Gold is the
> primary
> one I'm interested in and I just checked the SC15 specs and as you say the
> Diehard Gold has tweaked guts.  One of the most noticeable tweaks is the
> SC15 is 12V only and the Diehard Gold is 6v and 12V charging. Both voltages
> are a hard requirement.  And I feel more comfortable with an Atuomatic
> Charging system than a manual one   Primarily because as I've gotten older
> I've also become more forgetful. :-)  I've downloaded the SC15 manual and
> I'll compare notes on things like duty cycle and overload protections, etc.
>
> If I have had to make a guess right now it looks like the Diehard Gold unit
> may have more idiot protection features in it and the way the Sears
> warranty
> is written if it fails in the first three years all you have to do is being
> it back to the store and they replace it.  The Schumacher warranty requires
> shipment back to the factory which could become quite expensive.  Details
> details.
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
> It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Steve W.
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 8:45 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Battery Charger recommendations
>
> Dean VP wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Unless things have changed in the past couple months the Diehard wheeled
> units are Schumacher made. 2010 they reached the current agreement and
> expanded the sales area as well.
>
>
> The SE-4022 is also sold as the Diehard DH-200M  Same guts with different
> decals.
>
> The Model # 71341 Diehard gold is the SC15 case with tweaked guts.
>
>
> With that said, You might want to look at Associated Equipment.
> http://associatedequip.com/products/#cat-item-58
>
> They make a real good unit. Not cheap but real good units.
>
> --
> Steve W.
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