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Re: New Battery Charger

Don,
This is the charger we use...
http://www.powerstream.com/Shopcharg.htm
also available here for less http://www.batterystuff.com/battery-...sPro-600s.html
All about $500, fully automatic and smart charge.
We of course changed out the alligaotr clips for Anderson 50 amp plugs to match the robot.
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Re: New Battery Charger

The one thing that a really like about the new chargers is the fact that they don't drain the battery if you remove power from the charger but leave the alligator clips on the battery. Our first year, we had a row of chargers at competition, and after we shut everything down for the night and they shut off the main power, our batteries drained all night. They were dead in the morning. I much prefer the new ones.
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Re: New Battery Charger

Looking back at the year, several times I found at the competitions that our 2008 Schumacher battery charger was charging on 2amps and it needed to be set on 6 amps. The chaos of the competition makes me want to modify the new charger so we do not have to adjust the charge when it is connected to a battery but leave it on 6 by default. We often pull the charger off and check the voltage to take the "best one" to a match. When reconnecting the batteries then the charge amps were not readjusted. Anyone have similar experience and any idea on how to hack the controls as to bypass the 2,4,6 amp charge button?
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