LittleBill wrote:
Gjac wrote:
Thanks for the reply's, my 40 amp B&D has a fan. The HF battery charger works well and was cheap $29 with a coupon and a free mulimeter.
why in the world would you use the HF charger when you have the BD 40?
I have no experience with the BD unit so I cant comment on that.
The HF unit started life as the redheaded step child, thrown in the storage bay for use as a back-up plan incase the converter went out in the middle of a trip. I had read the reviews on here saying it was a decent unit for the price, so for 29 bucks seemed like a good fit.
Fast foward about 6 months, I came across a deal on some 8D agm batteries that had been sitting for 18mo's and needed to be charged back up.
I have about 5-6 diffrent chargers at my disposal, smart ones, shop chargers, small ones and big ones. Somewhere between hooking up every charger I could get my hands on, checking voltages and amp output, i found the HF unit lands you smack dab in the middle of where you want to be voltage wise.
I wrang it's neck bringing all three batts back up one after the other. It charged smooth and voltage rose slowly to where I had decided to end the charge. It did get warm, but never missed a beat.
No longer the redheaded step child, it earned my respect.
