🔌 Ampeak Smart Battery Charger/Maintainer 12V - Fully Automatic with 2/10/25A and Engine Start Review

Amazing! Works quickly, easily and flawlessly. I bought 2 different smart chargers before even seeing this. Let's just say the other two completely burned out my new 12V deep cycle lead-acid battery. There they had to go through various charging cycles and when the battery was completely replaced, it should have switched off. Left overnight to charge, the next morning it was still in bulk charge mode. In this mode he was more than 9 hours. So I was a bit hesitant and tired when I received this…

After my 30 year old 2/10/50A full metal charger started going crazy and I knew all the big brands perfectly, I decided for the Ampeak 2 /10 /25 because it has everything I need for a universal 12V system charger. Also, like my old charger, it had a "desktop" design which I opposed to "egg-shaped" " Prefer hanging models. It's well thought out and includes two large wire harness holders on the back, which surprised me, making it easy to store away without having to roughly wrap long cables…

Edit: Added some pictures for context.1. Shows the size and what appears on the display when connected2. Terminal clamp - too small for the terminal (if you have a smaller cylinder type it will fit) 3. Pressed against a small part of the terminal (the spring clamping force is really good) 4. Display after connection5. Wide angle for size comparison I've been looking for a new car charger for a long time. My old one eventually broke down and it was a huge pain to find one that had decent reviews

Do not think that the voltage gauge is the only indicator of the state of the battery. It's not like this. I've used this on 6 batteries in the few days I've had it. Each was in need of repair and each only had 80-90% capacity when fully charged. Some of them were brand new batteries that had lost some of their potential because they sat on the shelf before they went on sale. This unit, when plugged in and switched to 'recovery', could do a slow start, then do a full equalization and certainly…

Not bulky and heavy like most, quite small with lots of features! It's ridiculously easy to use and runs in the default auto load mode by default, and you really don't have to press any buttons if you don't want to. The huge, clear display is intuitive and shows you exactly what's going on. It scrolls through the charger's voltage/percentage of charge and the mode it's in (i.e. floating vs. recovery, etc.). Other brands either have fuzzy LEDs or you have to press buttons to get voltage/percent…