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What size battery charger?

jacobl741

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Bramble

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Noco gb150, starts everything I’ve ever used it on. £200ish off Amazon when it’s on offer.

They might do an even bigger one now GBX155???

Only a booster starter, not a charger as well

Try a CTEK recovery charger, has bought several batteries back to life that wouldnt hold a charge on a conventional charger
 
ACEngineering

ACEngineering

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jacobl741 said:
What size charger do I want for charging / starting tractors battery’s? On machine mart website here but there’s loads of them!

Clarke WBC180 180A Battery Starter/Charger - Machine Mart - Machine Mart

www.machinemart.co.uk www.machinemart.co.uk
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I have a sealey start 420, its not that big IMO but it is supposed to be run off a 16amp supply according to the specs, i have it on a 16amp blue plug but i also have an adaptor l;ead back to 13amp which it will do fine for charging but if you was to give it some stick on the booster you would cook the 13amp plug.

For the most part its fine and will start most things assuming the battery thats on machine has some charge in it or will take a quick 15min charge to help it along.

To run a bigger booster and start big stuff with totally dead batteries you will need a 16amp power supply.

Edit oh i also have 2 Noco GB150 jump packs, err both still unused :X3:
 
Steevo

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Bramble said:
Noco gb150, starts everything I’ve ever used it on. £200ish off Amazon when it’s on offer.

They might do an even bigger one now GBX155???

Only a booster starter, not a charger as well

Try a CTEK recovery charger, has bought several batteries back to life that wouldnt hold a charge on a conventional charger
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TripleSix said:
Get a CTek or Noco genius smart charger for charging and a Noco GB150 booster pack for jump starting
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Exactly this!!

Noco GB150 is way better than messing about with a charger because you can be up and running instantly. It's such a smallish unit too compared to the big lump booster trolleys.

As for chargers - Noco or CTEK both good. If you have a booster then often there isn't the rush to charge a battery quickly so a smaller (cheaper) charger will probably do. That said, I bought a 25amp CTEK a few years back having had a 3.5 and 7amp so that always gets used for charging batteries now.
 
ACEngineering

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Oxon
Steevo said:
Two?!! Both unused?!! :LOL:

Everything starting perfectly....or have you forgotten that you had them until reading this post?
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Carry one in the van, tried it once didnt work possibly not good enough connection on leads.

The other one is still in the box😂
Amazon driver delivered the first one to wrong address, a week after Amazon delivered a replacement the person that the first one was delivered to kindly delivered it to me😂 so I ended up with a free one🤭

Can I connect 2 of them up at same time😂🤔
 
Steevo

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ACEngineering said:
Carry one in the van, tried it once didnt work possibly not good enough connection on leads.

The other one is still in the box😂
Amazon driver delivered the first one to wrong address, a week after Amazon delivered a replacement the person that the first one was delivered to kindly delivered it to me😂 so I ended up with a free one🤭

Can I connect 2 of them up at same time😂🤔
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I have wondered about rigging a pair up on a 24v system…! 😆
 
milkloss

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East Sussex
ACEngineering said:
Carry one in the van, tried it once didnt work possibly not good enough connection on leads.

The other one is still in the box😂
Amazon driver delivered the first one to wrong address, a week after Amazon delivered a replacement the person that the first one was delivered to kindly delivered it to me😂 so I ended up with a free one🤭

Can I connect 2 of them up at same time😂🤔
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Make sure you try it and send it back if no good. My first one never worked any sense and got nicked by pikies........ second one did what it should.

Steevo said:
Exactly this!!

Noco GB150 is way better than messing about with a charger because you can be up and running instantly. It's such a smallish unit too compared to the big lump booster trolleys.

As for chargers - Noco or CTEK both good. If you have a booster then often there isn't the rush to charge a battery quickly so a smaller (cheaper) charger will probably do. That said, I bought a 25amp CTEK a few years back having had a 3.5 and 7amp so that always gets used for charging batteries now.
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make sure the alternator is clean and air can flow round it. Force started the 6920 with the gb150 and the smell of molten lacquer immediately caused me concern. Enabled me to move the tractor to a more convenient place for charging Though.
 
ACEngineering

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Oxon
milkloss said:
Make sure you try it and send it back if no good. My first one never worked any sense and got nicked by pikies........ second one did what it should.


make sure the alternator is clean and air can flow round it. Force started the 6920 with the gb150 and the smell of molten lacquer immediately caused me concern. Enabled me to move the tractor to a more convenient place for charging Though.
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I bought my GB150 over 12 months ago now so be too late to send back, honestly not had anything to try them on!
 
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