Anyone recommend a 'maintenance' battery charger?

And u don't have to disconnect the battery for charging as it's supplied with a hard wired socket.

Dopey said:

I got one of them, used it a few times, nice and easy, small compact, not complicated, but I do believe its for mid sized and smaller type of battery's??? and I dont know if that makes a difference or not, but still works on mine ok

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Won't matter as it's not jump starting it. It'll only draw the current the charger is prepared to deliver. A bigger battery will just take longer to charge from flat that's all. Once charged, the maintenance charge will keep it topped up without damaging the plates and battery size won't make a difference to that.

kooky_guy said:

Thanks all. Think I'll get a ctek then as I have no idea where my nearest aldi is. I like mail order.

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Check on line??

Dopey said:

I got one of them, used it a few times, nice and easy, small compact, not complicated, but I do believe its for mid sized and smaller type of battery's??? and I dont know if that makes a difference or not, but still works on mine ok

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I use mine on the biggest battery available for the p38 (as recommended by Datatec) and I have never had a problem. Its for maintaining the battery charge level not recharging it from flat

I used the CTEK one at home and it's worked well maintaining batteries and the recon function on it has managed to bring a few old batteries back from the dead

I have the aldi one. charges, conditions and trickle charges. can leave connected.

Lidl are getting a pretty good one in on 16th January. Only 13.99, ill be picking one up. Check out the website

Imho the lidl and aldi smart chargers are just as good as the 3.6amp ctek ones despite being much cheaper. I've had all three on the 'scope. Power looks equally clean.

StuckAgainSteve said:

Imho the lidl and aldi smart chargers are just as good as the 3.6amp ctek ones despite being much cheaper. I've had all three on the 'scope. Power looks equally clean.

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I agree. They are all good chargers.
I met the chief designer at CTEK - they really know their stuff.
Only fly in the Aldi/Lidl chargers is that they don't remember their previous setting if the power goes off.
When the power comes back on, you need to press a button to set them going.

Only really a problem if your power goes off regularly ( out in the sticks, we get regular 10 second power outages.) and it's a long walk to press the on button.
It's a bit of a pain, but no great heartache, just need to remember to switch the charger back on.

I've got a load of each of the cheap ones - used to have 24v military stuff, so had to have 2 chargers per battery pile - my 101 needed 4 chargers! So the a CTEK was never going to be bought for this...!

I did buy a few of the little Ring 4a charger - have had some failures... But the Aldi / Lidl and CTEK ones soldier on.