odyssey battery charger

[denali804 10+ year member]

Anyone on here use the odyssey battery chargers. If so how well do they work for the price? Recommend or don't recommend????

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[loopkiller 10+ year member]

Meh, Odyssey probably does not even make them. They are probably good units made by the same people that make all the other brands. I have never seen one in person before.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

http://www.odysseybattery.com/chargers.html

http://store.schumachermart.com/battery-chargers-automotive-speed-chargers.html

hmmmmm

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

http://www.odysseybattery.com/chargers.htmlhttp://store.schumachermart.com/battery-chargers-automotive-speed-chargers.html

hmmmmm

LOL there is your answer! I was just too lazy to look it up. Thanks for the assist there audiolife //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

I know because I have one LOL

 

[denali804 10+ year member]

which one do you have?????

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

which one do you have?????

I have the SC-600A Schumacher speed charge. you might need a larger one than I have as I do not nor wouldn't use it on a near dead larger battery. As a maintaining charger or charging from relatively low DOD state it works fine(Depth Of Discharge, the higher the DOD the closer to dead the battery is) It is a multi stage automatic charger. The models are very simular and the manuals share many exact statements and pictures. The control panel on mine is slightly different than the odyssey charger though. I can change the amprage (2,4,6 amp) and flip between 6v and 12v where the Odyssey charge appears to be a straight 6 amp charge to a 2 amp amp maintaining. They seem to share the same charge status leds as well. Charger I am comparing it to is the OMAX-6a-1b. They might have different charging cycles but I would venture to say they are close enough. When I first turn my charger on it goes up to 14.7 volts then you will hear a click then it stays at a constant 14.5v then when it senses a full charge it automatically kicks over to a 2 amp maintaining mode. My charger senses between regular flooded and AGM as well.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_13271_Kinetik+KIBC12-35.html# kinetik has one that is decent in price and appears to do 2-10-20-and 35 amp charges and looks to be 3 step automatic for agm. Price doesn't appear to be too bad either. IIRC a 12 amp of the brand I have was about $60 dollars at wally world and the next step up from that was about 80 in a different brand that did up to 20 amps. I would talk to your battery maker about their suggestions about what charge level works best for your battery/batteries. IMO the most important parts are that it does AGM batteries automatically, does the charging in steps and has a maintaining mode after the battery is charged.

 

[denali804 10+ year member]

The kinetiks look just like the black & decker chargers and they use to be a different company before black & decker purchased them. The company was vector that use to have those chargers.

http://blackanddecker.com/ProductGuide/CategoryOverview.aspx?cPath=4010.4013

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

The kinetiks look just like the black & decker chargers and they use to be a different company before black & decker purchased them.

LOL. That is probably true. They probably have them made by the same factory in China. That is common in the industry.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

The kinetiks look just like the black & decker chargers and they use to be a different company before black & decker purchased them. The company was vector that use to have those chargers.

Maybe correct but I have not seen a B and D with a 35 amp charge

This is a table of the Odyssey charger does in its multi steps.