What battery charger do you use?

[Onecountry]

I'll have to look at the one from Harboe Freight to replace my Schumacher.

 

[grsthegreat]

Harbor freight…..really? I once bought a carbon pyle tester from them. I tried it out on a fairly new battery. It shorted out the battery and got so hot in 10 seconds i thought it was going to explode. Ill never buy anything with a cord, motor or battery from that junk shop

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I have generic no name auto parts store 2/10/25 amp charger that has a "deep cycle" mode also, which I use to charge my 100 AH battery I use for my remote fence charger on my little orchard ... After that says it's "charged" I then put it on one of my BatteryMINDERS which have a desulfate feature.

I also use the BatteryMINDERS as tricky chargers on both tractors, on my pickup when I bring it home from sitting at my trucking companies terminal for weeks, and also put my generator battery on it once a year

Have a NOCO jump pack too ...

 

[Oaktree]

Old school, transformer based (got to be 40 years old) .... Pushes battery up to 16.5 volts (long float charge) .... Use it on my AGMs and Lead Acids.... And for electrolysis rust removing.... New microprocessor chargers sometimes won't start a charge if battery is to low, and you have to jump start charger with good battery

Same here, it's one I built 50-odd years ago. It has 2 voltage levels (don't think either goes quite as high as 16 though), generally use the lower setting.

I've never liked keeping batteries on chargers for long periods, I'll rotate this between seasonal pieces of equipment (lawnmower, ATV, snowmobile), not leaving it on any one for more than a couple days at a time (and it's usually on a timer). It has an ammeter so I can keep track of charge. Tractor, truck and cars are used often enough to not need one...maybe in extreme cold, but that's it.

I have a B&D "smart" charger/maintainer, but I don't use it very often...generally only when I need a 2nd one.