Thread: Deep Cycle Battery Chargers

hey steve, i got one this year and then bren bought tear em up one too for xmas, i like it, and talk to tear em up i dont think he likes it as much as i do but he likes it better than the antique he had. im pretty sure i got it at wal mart and its set up to charge any battery from a small lawnmower batttery to a car battery. what i like about it it shows you how much of a charge is in the battery when you start and shows as its charging what % it is at, although we have found out you sometimes have to unhook it and rehook it to get a change in the % of charging. it also wont overcharge and actually conditions the battery if you forget about it and does not fry it, somthing to do with de sulfinateing the battery?? i could be wrong on my terminology and ill get back to you with the model and name of it, but send tear em a pm and see what he thinks too. talk to you soon. gduck

I think I know the one you are talking about..I think its a schumacher or something like that?...I went to BPS tonite and picked up that Minn Kota deal...its real simple,has 3 stage charging and conditions as well but I most def appreciate the suggestion...So have you and tear-em-up been catchin any???
Steve

Ohh..and uh....BTW...did you see those massive slabs crappiemike caught??? sheeewwww...real nice!!!

I used the digital one from walmart for a very long time with no problems.I like it cause it shows a digital reading when you hook up of how charged the battery is and it shuts off automatically.I cant remember the name of it, but its in automotive and its black and gray colored.They still have them at my local walmart.It worked great for me. I got an onboard charger first of the year for the convienence of charging all three at once instead of having to go rotate my charger around.

My digital readout from WallyWorld has worked fine for several years now

Originally Posted by catonsville steve

Does anyone have any recommendation on buying a 12 volt trolling motor battery charger? I was thinking about picking up one of those portable Minn-Kota 10 amp deals....I picked up one of those portable units at Harbor Freight and I guess I got what I paid for....Junk!!!! It barely lasted one season and crapped out...

"DUAL PRO" is the absolute best on the market - 3 year unconditional warranty.
I bought a 3 bank from them. Almost to the day 3 years later 1 bank quit. I called them and they sent me a new one for free and a shipping lable to send the old one back.
I would buy another from them in a heart beat if I needed one !

Hey Steve my computer is still messed up I'm on sam's. I like the one from walmart fine I see you allready got one anyway. I got a busy weekend coming up will be in AAco. sat. to a family party, we got racing sat nite at delmar and the OC air show on sun. May try a quick trip fri. nite . Took the wife and crappie dude fishing on sun. we got 15 more flounder and then went swimming and we were picking up alot of conches now crappie dude wants to make conch horns and conch fritters :D

Conch fritters??? sounds good,u can tell he is a chip off the ole block!! heh heh..i'm kinda thinking I shoulda got the Dual Pro like squall line was sayin,sounds like a good deal...u don't mind payin a little xtra for something you can count on,but the minn kota has a 3 yr warranty as well so i think it'll be ok..Thanks everyone for the info!!! Flounder??? any keepers???