Always popular yearly items from Lidl and Aldi and with good reason, 3 years warranty and a fraction of the cost of the usual smart battery chargers and also performs as a trickle charger, useful for occasional use motorbikes or cars.
Suitable for all 6V and 12V car and motorbike batteries.
LCD display
Trickle or permanent charging functions
Switch between car, motorbike, cold start or 6V charging modes
LED charging indication
Approx. 1.91m charging cable
Top comments
cicobuff to SFJnet
16 Oct 155#4
Providing you would have access to a mains socket you could connect the terminals, plug it in and attempt a cold start when a battery has a problem due to more effort needed in cold weather to start the engine.
But no this is not a jump start machine like below :
This is meant for charging either partially depleted batteries and attempting to resurrect fully depleted batteries as well as maintaining charge on occasional use vehicles.
I would advise anyone avoid jump start machines anyway. Unless you keep their own battery topped up (and lets face it the majority of people will forget on such an 'emergency' occasional use item) they will themselves die from lack of use.
Much better keeping a pair of jump leads in your boot and jump starting your car from a friend/work colleague/kind person own battery in their vehicle, around a tenner at toolstation....keep that in your boot.
1more
16 Oct 153#5
These units are very good, I don't use my car much and if I think I won't be using it for say a week or more; I connect this to the battery and it tops it up and conditions the battery so the car's ready to go the next time I need it.
I purchased this last year, used on a number of occasions and it done the job! Worth the money
SFJnet
16 Oct 151#3
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but would this unit be suitable to keep in the boot in case a jump start is required?
cicobuff to SFJnet
16 Oct 155#4
Providing you would have access to a mains socket you could connect the terminals, plug it in and attempt a cold start when a battery has a problem due to more effort needed in cold weather to start the engine.
But no this is not a jump start machine like below :
This is meant for charging either partially depleted batteries and attempting to resurrect fully depleted batteries as well as maintaining charge on occasional use vehicles.
I would advise anyone avoid jump start machines anyway. Unless you keep their own battery topped up (and lets face it the majority of people will forget on such an 'emergency' occasional use item) they will themselves die from lack of use.
Much better keeping a pair of jump leads in your boot and jump starting your car from a friend/work colleague/kind person own battery in their vehicle, around a tenner at toolstation....keep that in your boot.
jsoap to SFJnet
16 Oct 15#19
No chance - the unit will only deliver 4Amps - starting a car will take more than 100Amps
There are some interesting ultra small jump starters around. Search for "lithium ion car starter"
1more
16 Oct 153#5
These units are very good, I don't use my car much and if I think I won't be using it for say a week or more; I connect this to the battery and it tops it up and conditions the battery so the car's ready to go the next time I need it.
snoopy18
16 Oct 151#6
Need a trickle charger for motorbike , this looks like ideal.
Thanks op
cicobuff to snoopy18
16 Oct 15#7
You're welcome, I needed one myself, was waiting for this as I prefer it having the voltage display that the Lidl ones do not have...but had the free £25 voucher from Bespoke offers.
Used it on a price beat on the Oxford 900 Oximiser Anniversary edition, £49.99 RRP, selling for £36.99 on Amazon and a price beat of just over £28, so £3 outlay...otherwise I would most certainly have gone for this myself as I have been using a 2A (really overcurrented for motorcycle charging) charger for way too long.
snoopy18
16 Oct 15#8
You know a lot more about these things than me :smiley:
Curious if I could start the bike with this connected or if it would damage the charger.
I do intend starting the bike every week so now wondering if I need this at all
simate
16 Oct 151#9
Something would be damaged somewhere if you started it with it connected.
cicobuff
16 Oct 151#10
If you intend starting the bike every week and riding it (starting it is not enough) then your bikes alternator will keep the battery charged up. Just bear in mind if forecasts are correct we could be in for a heavy snow winter, these things are always useful to have.
I doubt harm would come to the charger for attempting to start the bike with it attached, but really why would you unless your battery was weak and you were having trouble getting it to start because of it? Also you would need to disconnect before riding away :smiley:
One thing that some of the dedicated motorcycle chargers do have like the one I have just bought are fly leads you can connect to the battery for quick connect/disconnects.
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Opening post
Suitable for all 6V and 12V car and motorbike batteries.
LCD display
Trickle or permanent charging functions
Switch between car, motorbike, cold start or 6V charging modes
LED charging indication
Approx. 1.91m charging cable
Top comments
But no this is not a jump start machine like below :
This is meant for charging either partially depleted batteries and attempting to resurrect fully depleted batteries as well as maintaining charge on occasional use vehicles.
I would advise anyone avoid jump start machines anyway. Unless you keep their own battery topped up (and lets face it the majority of people will forget on such an 'emergency' occasional use item) they will themselves die from lack of use.
Much better keeping a pair of jump leads in your boot and jump starting your car from a friend/work colleague/kind person own battery in their vehicle, around a tenner at toolstation....keep that in your boot.
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But no this is not a jump start machine like below :
This is meant for charging either partially depleted batteries and attempting to resurrect fully depleted batteries as well as maintaining charge on occasional use vehicles.
I would advise anyone avoid jump start machines anyway. Unless you keep their own battery topped up (and lets face it the majority of people will forget on such an 'emergency' occasional use item) they will themselves die from lack of use.
Much better keeping a pair of jump leads in your boot and jump starting your car from a friend/work colleague/kind person own battery in their vehicle, around a tenner at toolstation....keep that in your boot.
There are some interesting ultra small jump starters around. Search for "lithium ion car starter"
Thanks op
Used it on a price beat on the Oxford 900 Oximiser Anniversary edition, £49.99 RRP, selling for £36.99 on Amazon and a price beat of just over £28, so £3 outlay...otherwise I would most certainly have gone for this myself as I have been using a 2A (really overcurrented for motorcycle charging) charger for way too long.
Curious if I could start the bike with this connected or if it would damage the charger.
I do intend starting the bike every week so now wondering if I need this at all
I doubt harm would come to the charger for attempting to start the bike with it attached, but really why would you unless your battery was weak and you were having trouble getting it to start because of it? Also you would need to disconnect before riding away :smiley:
One thing that some of the dedicated motorcycle chargers do have like the one I have just bought are fly leads you can connect to the battery for quick connect/disconnects.