[Shop-talk] What is the best trickle charger? (and Harbor Freight Go-Jacks followup)

[John Miller]

> What is currently the best trickle charger on the market?  I'm tried of
> ones that break or don't seem to work properly.  I currently use
> Shumakers, but they don't seem to be doing the job.  (Maybe I just need
> a different model of theirs?)

Not to thread-hijack but maybe the information overlaps.

I've got a little BatteryMinder that came from Northern Tool on sale, it 
does a good job of keeping my trailer's winch battery happy but it won't 
restore a truly dead battery.

I'm looking for a new full-scale battery charger, I had a Black and 
Decker/Vector that was the absolute tits, it could fix just about any 
battery that could be fixed, but it failed a couple years back and that 
model is no longer available.

Replaced it with a Schumacher that proved to be a disappointment and has 
now croaked as well, probably fixable but I'm not sure I care, I just 
don't like it enough to bother.

So...next?   Thanks for any suggestions.  I'm at the point that if there 
were something truly good out there, I'd pay bucks.

John.