Black & Decker (Vector?) Battery Chargers - Page 2

 

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:24:01 -0800, Too_Many_Tools wrote:


Not useful for me!  On our trip last year, I tried out one of those by
Vector.  I use a #27 China-Mart Trolling battery.

The problem I had was that the Vector would reset to 2A and regular
battery settings if there was a shore power hiccup.

You see, I was using the Vector as a power supply for a Koolatron cooler
as well.  The Koolatron draws 4A.  The result of an overnight power hiccup
was that when I woke up, I was drawing 2A from the battery instead of
maintaining it. Imagine this happening on your last night on shore power
and your next stop has no shore power. I wanted a fully charged
battery.  Well, I used some of those $@#% words for sure!

I returned the Vector and got one of these:
http://www.batterychargers.com/details.cfm?prodid=SS%2D51A%2DPE&catid !
works a charm.

HTH;

--
John & Sue
'04 GMC Safari
'99 Starcraft Starflyer (Shuttlecraft)

 

Very good point....from my usage I can easily see this being a real
PITA.


Schumacher lines are the chargers most commonly available in the retail
channel.

One concern I have with the newer smart chargers is they all seem to
have small fans....and they run almost all the time. Long term
reliability is a concern since none of these are user replaceable. I
suspect that the older transformer based chargers will long out live
the newer inverter based chargers.

TMT