Battery charger @ Lidl next week
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Gwylan
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No, neither that one nor the one with the digital display return to their last setting after an outage. But toherwise great little chargers.
VicS
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No
beaten to it
Mine has a digital display, Id not noticed they are still selling one without,
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tigr
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Thanks, been looking out for when they next come along and had not seen this.
Fimacca
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I had a battery tester from them, same shape. It is not that good to be honest, at telling condition of a battery. it told me my car battery was fine, and I dumped it the next week as it was shot......
this may be better i suppose...........
this may be better i suppose...........
tigr
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Battery testing is a black art, they have special tools to test under load at garages. Even those are not always right.
But to charge a battery these are pretty good, I've got one (although it may be the Aldi version) and a mainstream one for my bike and they all work well.
But to charge a battery these are pretty good, I've got one (although it may be the Aldi version) and a mainstream one for my bike and they all work well.
tigr
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I think this one may do the job and comes on after a power cut. I've just got it and plugged it onto my old van to keep the battery ok, and I came indoors and looked through the book and I found it has Auto recognition.
Now the reason I had a new battery on the van was that it was laid up for three years and I had an Aldi charger on it and thought all would be well. At some time the power went off and so the battery went flat and failed when I came to use it. (Along with seized brakes etc, but thats a long story).
Now I do like the Aldi one as it has a nice screen but somehow I could not find it, so needed to get a new one and also thinking the more the merrier. I set up the Lidl one and pulled out the short extension lead and found the charger on the end - never mind.
This one is a bit smaller, I'm interested to see how it goes.
VicS
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No I dont think it will.
I ITYWF that it goes into standby mode when the power is reconnected after a disconnection
You then have to select the required mode by pressing the mode button to start the charging.
The Auto recognition is of 6 volt or 12 volt battery. If a 12 volt battery is connected Mode1 ( for 6 volts) is not available. If a 6 volt battery is connected modes 2, 3 and 4 ( for 12 volt batteries) are not available.
RTFM, where F= full
http://www.lidl-service.com/static/133627883/113043_EN_EL.pdf
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tigr
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I think that is correct, I don't normally read the manual but this time I did as I was the question was raised and I still had the book as it was brand new.
But this Lidl one did not last the night and now is dead and will go back asap.
I've stuck the Aldi one on and as I knew it does not charge up straight away until you select the type. I noticed it recognised the the battery voltage as soon as the power is connect so the Lidl and Aldi one must be the same.
Never RTFM'd the Aldi one, just used it.
Not sure if I will exchange or refund and wait for another Lidl one, Aldi is a smaller unit but display is pretty on Lidl - and it works..
But this Lidl one did not last the night and now is dead and will go back asap.
I've stuck the Aldi one on and as I knew it does not charge up straight away until you select the type. I noticed it recognised the the battery voltage as soon as the power is connect so the Lidl and Aldi one must be the same.
Never RTFM'd the Aldi one, just used it.
Not sure if I will exchange or refund and wait for another Lidl one, Aldi is a smaller unit but display is pretty on Lidl - and it works..
OceanSprint
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Sorry this is slightly off thread, but if i got one of these and had it permanently attached to domestic battery so that whenever i attach shore power, it charges (never for more than a day), can i still use the boats 12v system? At the moment when i charge the battery i disconnect it from the boats circuits and hemce cant use cabin lights or vhf etc alongside.
VicS
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My Lidl one has an LCD display. Pretty and interesting to see the voltage reading all the time. together with a little bar graph that shows the charging progress.
Puzzling too, until you read the manual more carefully, because when it senses that a (car sized) 12 volt battery is 80% charged it reduces the charge current from 3.8 A to 0.8A which means of course that the displayed volts suddenly falls to a lower reading.
VicS
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It does not automatically start charging. When the power comes on it goes into standby mode and waits for the required charging mode ( battery size) to be selected.
But no reason why you should not leave it cahrging while you use the 12 volt system AFAIK
If you want a similar charger that starts charging straight away look at the small Ctek ones .
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