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Originally Posted by erick
Thanks - any recommendations?
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Hi Erick,
As always, it depends. But for charging a range of smaller lead acid batteries, the name brand chargers are Xantrex and CTEK. Both provide high quality multi-stage chargers and I believe both brands are available from Battery World. The CTEK XS800 is about $90 or the next model up, the XS3600 is $140.
Jaycar have knock-offs of the CTEK range e.g. This one would be equivalent to the XS3600
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView...T&SUBCATID=295. I'm not sure how well the Jaycar ones actually work, and unfortunately they don't have a seperate "gel" charging mode, but claim to be able to charge gel batteries correctly. I have both a Xantrex for charging my batteries at home and a Jaycar CTEK knockoff which I take with me to Wiruna.
Cheers.