battery charger recommendation

Would like to hear the good and bad experiences you have had with chargers. Need something with boost big enough for diesel tractors. Thanks!
 
Been covered all over the place the past few weeks. A good charger, maintainer, desulfater is what you need and many have liked the Schumacher units. Just look for the listings in tractor and tractor OT listings. Just leave it on when you park your baby and they work great.
 
I'll second that. When my 40-yr-old Schumacher died awhile back, Jeff suggested the 2 amp, $20.00 charger-maintainer. It solved my problem.
Butch
 
I use a battery tender on my 350D JD and have been for many years. Use the same on the other tractors. Never had a problem to date. Mine all came from Walmart, both 6 and 12 volt.
 
I have a Schumacher model SE3010 10-30-200 amp fast charge starter charger. Haven't found anything it won't start. And best of all it can take the abuse, riding in the back of the utility vehicle or truck, falling off the tractor platform, cables being pulled on, etc. Got it at Blaine's in Cedar Falls.
 
Using a charger boost function, especially on a diesel machine with a near dead battery is incredibly hard on the charger. A huge amp load at near dead short voltage. The shock load on the transformer and diodes is incredible. Use the charger to charge and warm the battery, but turn it off before you crank the machine or expect short life of the charger.
 
(quoted from post at 23:04:20 10/31/16) Would like to hear the good and bad experiences you have had with chargers. Need something with boost big enough for diesel tractors. Thanks!

from my experience I'd stay away from the "smart" chargers and stay with a "dumb" one that just charges and maintains . Those smart ones can be fooled by a really dead battery and report is as bad.. when it just needs a strong boost..

I've got two Scheumacher's and a couple of Battery
Tenders... they keep everything up to snuff. and BTW my battery in the ZTR died this week... got the Battery Tender on it now seeing if will revive it.

john
 
Associated makes a good 6/12/24 volt commercial unit that I've used in different shops. High dollar, but worth it.
 

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