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Chargers for
leisure batteries

The quality of your charger can make a big difference to your battery life and performance. IAIN GEDDES finds out more


Chargers for leisure batteries

By IAIN GEDDES
Posted on 23 October 2015

A basic, traditional battery charger is a simple device that’s been made to charge a battery to a state where it is capable of starting an engine. What’s less well understood is this is not a fully-charged state and such a charger is only good to take a battery up to about 80 per cent charge. This may be ideal for cranking an engine but not if you want maximum viable capacity for improved endurance when out camping.

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