Car battery charge recommendation for home use...
Discussion
For years we've been using my Dad's oldskool (literally 40+ years old!) charger, and it's been fine I suppose...
When I was a mechanic we had one of the high end CTEK chargers, and it was the absolute nuts. Especially the recondition setting, capable of saving almost any "dead" battery. Seeing as they're over 300 quid, I recently purchased a CTEK MXS 5.0 as it also has a recondition setting on it...
HOWEVER! . . The recondition setting is pony, seems to have little to no improvement to the batteries charge holding capability and barely seems to even give the battery a thorough charge.
And on top of this (now this is the ridiculous bit) the MXS 5.0 won't charge a battery that is showing under 2.5v :-/ (!?) What's the fuking point in that!? . . So when I leave something on (like the other day), I first have to use the charger that's almost twice my age, and THEN it's ok to use the CTEK!!!
I've had a word with the seller and luckily he's agreed to give me a refund... My dad has also been looking at chargers but he doesn't like the idea of smart chargers (too oldskool perhaps, sure he could be swayed!)
Either way, we need a new charger! . . To save any more drama has anyone got any recommendations? Would be interested to know what other people use and to what effect.
Thanks in advance!
When I was a mechanic we had one of the high end CTEK chargers, and it was the absolute nuts. Especially the recondition setting, capable of saving almost any "dead" battery. Seeing as they're over 300 quid, I recently purchased a CTEK MXS 5.0 as it also has a recondition setting on it...
HOWEVER! . . The recondition setting is pony, seems to have little to no improvement to the batteries charge holding capability and barely seems to even give the battery a thorough charge.
And on top of this (now this is the ridiculous bit) the MXS 5.0 won't charge a battery that is showing under 2.5v :-/ (!?) What's the fuking point in that!? . . So when I leave something on (like the other day), I first have to use the charger that's almost twice my age, and THEN it's ok to use the CTEK!!!
I've had a word with the seller and luckily he's agreed to give me a refund... My dad has also been looking at chargers but he doesn't like the idea of smart chargers (too oldskool perhaps, sure he could be swayed!)
Either way, we need a new charger! . . To save any more drama has anyone got any recommendations? Would be interested to know what other people use and to what effect.
Thanks in advance!
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