Draper Battery Charger 12/24V | 360A Power Tools Automotive Car Boat Charger | Workshop and Home Use | 11967

I bought this to get some umff back in to some batteries that had sat on the vans parked up. They were too flat to register as any good with the trickle charger so it wouldn't recover them. Popped this on a timed boost and connected to the terminals, it charged them back to life immediately. I then attached to the trickle charger and let that go through a recovery process and that brought the batteries back up to full charge. Very impressed. It's not compact, infact it's quite large, robust and comes on a set a wheels to move it about. These are easy enough to assemble and would be simple with only basic knowledge to achieve. It has a normal charge setting, a timed charge setting and a boost setting. It's a little noisy but if it's in your garage or outside can't see it being a problem. You wouldn't want to do it in your kitchen while the wife is trying to watch TV. Our house is open plan, I did this. She wasn't happy. We're still together though so that's good.

Many negative feedback items seem to surround these chargers. Some seem to think it's a jump pack it's not. It contains a reasonably large transformer, so it has a hum, so do metal 110 volt transformers & welders. It is normal! Crank started my ride-on no problem, six levels of charge low to high. I will admit the wheels are a bit rubbish, but they can be replaced with better ones. Mine the axle slots for the circlips were not deep enough for a great fit, get a hacksaw and deepen them! With 24 volt to hand it makes renovating old batteries quite easy, see 'youtube' on the subject. for the money great, much better costs far more I am quite happy with my machine, and would not swap it.

Does the job no problem

Can't give a review as I haven't used it

awsome, very large, well made,and professional. hums quite a bit when in use, total overkill for home use but who cares, will probably out live me lol.

Perhaps it is me; I am a plug-in and play merchant; however I find this product a little fiddley. In time I am sure I will get the hang of it

The device might work, but the instructions only tell you not to leave it plugged in. Clearly as a battery-powered device it is supposed to be plugged in at some point to charge up the internal battery but the instructions don't say when, how you tell when it is charged, how long this might take, etc. I contacted Draper to ask but they're obviously not trying to do any customer support, so I'm on my own with that. Recommend against buying, and would extend that to anything Draper that is more sophisticated than an adjustable wrench, I suppose.

The charger has stopped working after using it twice - not fused - Not returnable. It needs repairing but you cannot contact Amazon.