Review on Keep Your Battery Fully Charged With A Smart 12V Charger/Maintainer Featuring Winter Mode by Marvin Perry

I have had this charger for two years and it is my go to charger all the time. I do repairs on ATV's and SXS's. Almost every vehicle that comes in has battery problems. Recreation vehicles are used and then put away and then most of the time not touched until it's time to use them again. This charger has brought many of these batteries back to life that normally would need to be replaced. The recondition function does take quite a bit of time , but is well worth the results. The only down side is that the battery needs at least 3 volts for the charger to start working. If I have a battery under 3 volts, then I put an old manual charger on it for about 15 minutes. After that it will usually have enough voltage to let this charger start working. But that small inconvenience is worth what this charger can do. On a sad note, this charger recently blew up from my own fault. I was charging an ATV outside my shop while I was test riding another on my 22 acre property. Out of nowhere it started raining. I was to far away from the shop to get there quick enough to stop the charger from getting hit with the rain. I opened it up to dry it out and saw a burn mark on the plastic case where the water arced. I saw two burned resistors. I contacted Tower Top with the location of the burned resistors and asked them for the specs of the resistors so I could order replacements. They promptly answered back with just what I needed. Great Service from them! I have ordered the new resistors and hopefully that is all that was damaged and I can bring this unit back to life. In the mean time I have ordered the Pro Model which is above this model. It says it will work down to 1 volt in the battery. I am looking forward to the same great quality and service that I got out of the first charger. The only downside to this charger is the clamps. Sometimes the biting area is a little hard to make a connection in a confined area or on a smaller battery and the colored plastic clamp covers just clip onto the metal clamp and are not strong at all. They come off very easily. Just having the cable swing down while moving the unit and having them contact the floor, bench or anything can break off the tabs on the clamps plastic covers. This is the only area I can say needs improvement. But all the positives of this charger out weigh the weak plastic covers. I would highly recommend this charger. I will write a review of the Pro Model after I have some experience with it.