Lidl battery charger

Lidl special offers have a good looking battery charger on sale from thursday the 13th. Multi stage with sulphation break down capabilities only

12.99 with a three year guarantee, looks good to me, also it has clamp or ring terminal as standard. Can be left permanently connected, although it is not clear if it will re-start itself if the mains goes off, my guess is that it will BICBW

look on the lidl site, there is even a video about it.

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then special offers and enter your postcode for your area offers, I would guess this item would be in most areas.

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Mrcheerful
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Thus spake Mrcheerful ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:

I bought one of these a year or so ago at Lidl. Not had many occasions to use it but it seems to do its job pretty well. I also have a now fairly ancient Optimate charger for my motorcycle which gets far more use, and I've rigged up a socket on the bike so as to allow the charger to be plugged in whenever needed (inside my garage).

Reply to
A.Clews

In message , Mrcheerful writes

I'll take a look, normally use an old computer surplus PSU I modified about 20 years ago.

I have to say that accidents apart (lights left on etc) if I have to use a battery charger I start thinking of replacing the battery, especially as I keep the car garaged when not in use.

There is a case for keeping "topped up" though, to prolong battery life.

Reply to
Gordon H

Looks to be the same as before. So it does need to have a button pressed to start it up after connecting to the mains.

It's an excellent device and the equal of those costing 3 times as much from 'posh' stores.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

But after connection to the battery and after charging is commenced, in the event of temporary mains failure (but not battery disconnection) will it start to charge after mains goes back on? The aldi one doesn't, but this lidl one is a bit different to the current aldi one. The C-tek does, which makes it a good choice for mounting in a motorhome for instance, as merely plugging power in to the van will start the charger. Likewise the bloke that only has to power up the garage remotely to start his battery charging.

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Mrcheerful

Mrcheerful presented the following explanation :

Some which start charging without a button push, will discharge a battery when the mains fails. So good and bad points to both types.

Reply to
Harry Bloomfield

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mrcheerful" saying something like:

Neither does this Lidl one, if it's exactly the same unit internally as the last offer.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

Mrcheerful pretended :

I managed to track down a couple of them - and you need to push the button after a mains outage, to get them to restart.

The instructions don't give much away, but my tests suggest it has quite a clever charging and maintaining regime, bringing the battery up to the selected voltage, then once fully charged dropping the voltage back to maintain it at 13.8v. Peak charge voltage seems to be a selectable 14.4 or 14.7v for a 12v battery. With an option to charge at a lower current for a smaller 12v bike battery and a 6v charging option. Maximum current output is suggested to be 3.8amp, with reverse connection protection and a splash proof case.

I didn't manage to work out or test the sulphation break down part.

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Harry Bloomfield

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