Finally a USA made battery charger

[Da Game]

After searching the web, I came across this company

http://interacter.com/

The two I'm considering are;

http://interacter.com/products/express-series-overview/

http://interacter.com/products/industrial-commercial-series-specs/

Or the budget one

http://interacter.com/products/professional-series-specs/


They do everything that was mention in a previous thread, so I'm happy.

 

[JHZR2]

Rizk National Industries (non site sponsor so not linking) has been making these since 1976. I have one and its really good. Well made and nice, old school feel. Only issue is that it isnt thermally compensated. I dont see that being confirmed for these either. I asked the question to them.

 

[Da Game]

I talk to the owner (got lucky), he mention that these was "Themally Compensated". I talked to the owner (can't mention his name) from Rizk last week, good guy also. He did mention that has product was also 100% made in America. Rizk did not say that theirs was a "multi-stage" charger, thats why I like the Interacter chargers.

 

[JHZR2]

Good info, thanks!

 

[Win]

AFAIK, Associated Equipment Corporation chargers are still U.S. made.

http://associatedequip.com/#all

I've had their wheeled chargers and they are good.

I notice they now have a handheld battery analyzer similar to the controversial HF tester.

http://associatedequip.com/product/12-1012/

Would have to be thousands less than a Megger.

 

[Da Game]

I talked to them about a month or so ago. Their model 9640 has the "Dead Battery Override Switch" which recharges a battery down to about 2v. The Interacter ICS 1225 goes to 1v automatically and for the $120.00 less.

The Associated does not mention "Multi-stage charging" or "Thermally Compensated", nor did the tech guy I talked to mention it. Even usabattery charger offer a simular charger like Associated for less. I agree with buying products made in the U.S.A. and Associated was the second one I looked at.

 

[Win]

And, for someone who wants to homebrew a very capable charger, the venerable UC3906 chip is still available in a DIY friendly plastic DIP.

Current data is here:

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/uc3906.pdf

 

[Donald]

Temp compensation is mostly needed with a battery maintainer in hot weather so as to not fry the battery.

Some with temp compensation only do high temp, some low temp and a few both.