

| Subject: | inexpensive, quality battery charger at aldi |
| From: | Edward Maglott |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Nov 2017 10:12:10 -0400 |
this is one of those products aldi has intermittently. I bought one two years ago and have found it to be very good quality and a great price. measuring its output to a fairly discharged battery it appears to first charge at up to 4 amps and gets the battery up to 14.5V, then will drop to 2.5amps, .8amps and finally goes to a trickle charge at about .1amp. You can also set it to "motorcycle" instead of "car" and it cuts out the higher charging current. If the battery is not very discharged it will quickly go to lower current output. as it says in the ad it has a feature that is supposed to revive a bad battery. I have seen it go into this mode when the initial V of a battery is somewhere below 11V or so. I'm not sure I've ever seen that actually work though. On thing to note is that after a power failure or disconnect you will need to press the button to turn it back on. So if you have this maintaining the house or starting battery in your vanagon you'd need to check it periodically to make sure it's still "on." Also, the display doesn't give much detailed info about the charge state of the battery or what it's doing but you may not need that anyway. https://www.aldi.us/en/weekly-specials/aldi-finds-for- november-1/november-1-detail/ps/p/auto-xs-car-battery-charger-2/ Edward
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