Thread: Recommendations for 6-amp battery chargers
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Re: Recommendations for 6-amp battery chargers
I agree with Tavis. We have been spending too much time playing with battery chargers and deciding if batteries are charged. We even look through the LED from the top to better see the color of green and if the LED has quit blinking.

Here is what we are doing to make life easier: we bought one, so far, a Shumacher Speed Charger, model # WM-600A. I bought it at Walmart before we left for Inglewood last year. The cost was $25. The charger meets the requirements for the competition and has % charged indicators from 25 to 100%. The charger has three red bars and graduates to one green bar when charging is complete. Best of all no guess work. In addition, we have converted the alligator clips to an Anderson connector. No more wondering if we have a good connection from the charger to the battery, and no more arc welding in the pits.

One down side to the charger is it defaults to 2 amps when first connecting to a battery. Not to worry: two pushes of the button and you go from 2, 4, to 6 amps.