Schumacher SC1357 6/12V Fully Automatic Battery Charger and 6A Maintainer

very happy with this charger does every think i want and would recommend

I BOUGHT THIS CHARGER AND ITS CHARGED ALOT OF BATTERYS

I bought this a month or more ago and have not needed to uise it yet.

Always impressed with Schumaker products and this battery charger is no exceptions. Ready to go out of the box easy to use.

I was looking at the digital chargers Shcumacher makes (with the higher charging amps) but I wanted a charger that had FEWER amps, so even at the max amps charing (6A max in this model charger), my batteries would not be overcharging at full charging power. I have two large 12v batteries and some smaller ones (batteries range from about 45Ah down to 12Ah)...most are deep-cycle AGM types and one is an old (2006, but apparently still good) Honda OEM car battery (made by Panasonic). If charging at 1/10 of it's rating (as per the general rule for charing a battery safely and gently), this charger -- at 6A max -- would be slightly over charging the largest ones, but ieven at an also safe (but considered maximum so as not to harm the battery) of twice the 1/10 rate, it'd not be TOO much of an overcharging power level. The digital Schumachers were clearly higher and I didn't want that, so I went with this non-digital model (has lights but no digital readout). I have some smaller chargers (around 1.5A or smaller, charger.battery-tender "smart chargers") I use to top off and keep them topped-off, but when I use one of these batteries and get it down aome (not to exceed 50% discharged, of course), it takes a long time to charge them back up fully...the Schumacher 2A/4A/6A charger gets them "refilled' much quicker...which is good as they are all for emergency power use mainly (for temeporary use when the power goes off occasionally). Anyway, I got the Schumacher for QUICKER charging when needed. For usual charging/tending, I use the smaller chargers, as I do not want to shorten a battery's life by using high amp chargers when not necessary, or go too much over the max amp charging rate for a given Ah battery. This charger automatically selects whether the battery is 6 or 12 volts and also automatically selects the proper charging rate depending on the state-of-charge of the battery, although you can use the buttons to select them yourself if you want. I have not tried to do that manually as I left it to the charger, but so far, it works fine. As for the FAN, I can barely hear it, so it's no big deal to me. And before I actually purchased this charger, I checked online and saw mostly high reviews on it, even a bit better ratings than the dgital versions (although the digitals were mostly good ratings also). For all those reasons, then, I am pleased with my purchase, and Walmart.com had a great price to boot!