Lidl Charger with Start Option

Cerco · 27-11-2015 5:24pm #1

I see Lidl have a battery charger with a jump start function on sale at the moment.

LINK

I like the idea of the high current start function although the unit needs to be attached to the mains so would not work on the roadside. Seems good value at €50.

Anybody bought one or have any comments?

Toyotafanboi · 27-11-2015 5:35pm

Hard justified imo.

you'd get a regular home/ DIY trickle charger for €20 and you'd get into a basic portable power pack for €50.

this is a very expensive trickle charger, that can do what a portapower does, if you don't mind it not being portable, which is the only useful thing a portapower does.

it's probably ok, but not as useful as it seems.

gctest50 · 27-11-2015 5:46pm

here's whats inside one of them :

http://i.imgur.com/Ar6PPoJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CNZapQK.jpg

Cerco · 27-11-2015 5:55pm

Sorry but if Lidl unit costs €50 and the trickle charger and portapack costs €70 , how come it is not good value?
It also has a fast charge function.

Do you have a link for portapower?
(all I can find on google is a charger for power tools or low voltage batteries)

Thanks

gctest50 · 27-11-2015 5:59pm

you can get little lithium ones :

http://www.halfords.ie/motoring-travel/tools-diy/inverters-power-packs/ring-lithium-powerpack

Cerco · 27-11-2015 6:02pm

gctest50 wrote: »

you can get little lithium ones :

http://www.halfords.ie/motoring-travel/tools-diy/inverters-power-packs/ring-lithium-powerpack

Thanks gctest.They look good. Handy to keep in the car.

Just looking at Halfords and saw this : Link

at €49.

Toyotafanboi · 27-11-2015 6:16pm

Cerco wrote: »

Sorry but if Lidl unit costs €50 and the trickle charger and portapack costs €70 , how come it is not good value?
It also has a fast charge function.

Do you have a link for portapower?
(all I can find on google is a charger for power tools or low voltage batteries)

Thanks

Because this really is just a trickle charger.

If you can take the battery out of the car and get it to the mains, it's kind of defeated the purpose of the jumpstart function and your also probably not in a rush so the trickle charger would do the finest.

Only useful scenario would be if you left your lights on overnight in your front garden or something.

colm_mcm · 27-11-2015 8:39pm

gctest50 wrote: »

here's whats inside one of them :

http://i.imgur.com/Ar6PPoJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CNZapQK.jpg

I was expecting pixies

gctest50 · 27-11-2015 8:47pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

I was expecting pixies

that's what you get inside some of the cheap trickle chargers, they run off with all the overheat/overcharge/safety components and leave the bare necessities

Voodoomelon · 27-11-2015 9:53pm

If the jump start function doesn't bother you, a little bit more gets you a top quality CTEK battery charger, I got mine last week:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FC42HAA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Charges every kind of battery including AGMs, with both float and pulse maintenance.

Tigger · 27-11-2015 11:06pm

the optimate is good also

gctest50 · 28-11-2015 3:58am

about 10 euro - helps stop spiking electronics

http://www.aeg-automotive.com/en/products/id/151

Cerco · 28-11-2015 3:43pm

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Because this really is just a trickle charger.

Only useful scenario would be if you left your lights on overnight in your front garden or something.

As I understand , trickle charging a 12v battery means delivering a charging current up to 3A or so.
This unit delivers a charging current up to 12A so you could hardly call it a trickle charger.

Cerco · 28-11-2015 3:46pm

Voodoomelon wrote: »

If the jump start function doesn't bother you, a little bit more gets you a top quality CTEK battery charger, I got mine last week:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FC42HAA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Charges every kind of battery including AGMs, with both float and pulse maintenance.

That's a quality piece of kit. Santa might have one in the sack 😀