Schumacher Electric Wheeled 10A Car Battery Charger & Maintainer – SC1445

Very nice and good quality product and works well, item as described and does what it is supposed to do !!

Works great, especially on dead batteries that the new chargers won’t charge.

Easy to use and powerful

This is not a worthless "smart charger". You plug the thing in, put the clamps on a battery, turn it on, and electrons are going to flow. If you care to try, you can hook it up to a tree branch, or a garden hose, or a stick of rebar. Electrons will flow, however slowly or inefficiently. Used as it is meant to be used, you are going to pump electrons into your battery. You don't wait for the charger to decide that the battery is a good battery. You don't wait for it to "recondition" a battery before it will start charging. Instead, you twist the dial, and it starts charging. Smart chargers may make sense for people who don't understand what they are doing. But the problem with smart chargers is, you can't charge a really dead battery. When I want to charge a dead battery, I want it to CHARGE. Not in an hour or two. Not tomorrow. I want it to CHARGE, and I want it RIGHT NOW! The 250 amp booster or start is nice too. If I don't want to wait for the battery to charge, the charger will actually start my vehicles. Hey - you or a family member is injured, you get in the car and find the battery is low or dead - you can get the car running, and haul arse to the doctor, or the hospital. Try that with a smart charger.

I'd probably give this 3.5 stars if that was an option. I replaced an older Schumacher 150 amp unit with this and thought it would be an upgrade, but found myself missing my "old blue" that served me so well for so long in some ways. To be clear, it charges batteries just fine, and the extra 100 amps from a 250 amp unit seems to make a difference in terms of getting a vehicle with a really dead battery going. Nothing about it justifies going with 3 stars, but there's enough little things I find wonky about using it that I'm not sure I'd call it a 4 star experience. The "issues" I have might be only because I was used to my old charger, but here's my little list of things that Schumacher changed that I don't care for: You can be the judge of whether this model is for you. 1. The old unit had a flat top. The angled forward face of this one looks sleeker, until you're working on something or storing the charger. Then you find out you can't put bolts or tools or other hardware on it while working, and my smaller charger no longer fits on top of my Schumacher when storing them in the shop. Probably minor, but, it's my experience. 2. Of bigger concern to me is that my old girl had all cables coming out the back, whereas this one has them coming out the front. So it used to be you would wheel the charger up to the vehicle, and the front automatically faces you and the cables coming out the back automatically went toward the vehicle just from wheeling it there. Now the cables come out the front where the controls also are. It's again, not the end of the world, but the logistics of using it are a little more wonky. They brag up having 6 foot cables, but an extra two feet is "wasted" going from the front of the charger to the vehicle, unless you turn the charger round so the controls face the vehicle... It's just not "elegant" in my opinion... 3. That same situation with the 6 foot cables coming out the front have proven to me anyway, to make putting them away when done charging something into a trip I still haven't quite gripped. There are plastic "paddles" attached to the BACK of the unit to clamp the battery clamps to when in storage. But the cables, again, come out the FRONT. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I personally find this less than ideal and the cause of an occasional curse word escaping my lips. Cable management overall with this is just not as simple as with the old unit. Maybe I really need to sit with it and reflect and experiment. Maybe the designers knew something I don't? Maybe if I spend more time with her and take her out to dinner and talk nice to her, she will reveal her secret to easy cable management? 4. This item might really come down to it "being me" and stuck in my ways, but I don't really care for the newer style "shark bite" battery cable clamps. The "head" of the clamp where the "teeth" are seems tiny, and as compared to the older style battery clamp jaws it seems really awkward to attach them to some battery post types in some situations. You have to align the clamp "just so" and the heavy spring loading to these makes it tend to want to pop off the post just from the weight of the cable sometimes. 5. I don't mind having to take the time to wrap up the cables when done for final storage of the unit, but for quickly moving the charger away from a vehicle and just getting it out of the way before it goes into storage, it's nice if you don't have to wrap up the cables "just so" right away. My old unit had a plastic wrapping around the handle for the charger, which made it really quick and easy to just remove the clamps from the battery, clamp the cables to the handle itself quickly for moving the unit around without cables dangling and without having to worry about putting both a positive and negative cable on the same metal handle with the possibility of any residual charge still being in the unit. I would just wrap electrical tape around the handle on this one so I can do the same thing, but I don't think that would work with those tiny "shark bite" jaws or whatever they're called. And again, with the cables coming out the front nothing works out very well anyway. 6. I'm not sure what the meter is supposed to be telling me? On the old unit the meter would tell you easily how much charge a battery was soaking up, by deflecting a bunch on a dead battery and slowly coming down as the battery took it's charge. You could gauge where things were at with that meter. This one? Seems to barely move no matter how dead the battery is or how long it's been charging. Maybe I'm just not very good at listening and she's TRYING to tell me what's wrong but i'm just dumb? Overall, like I say, it charges batteries just fine. And it looks pretty, but I'll be honest, I wish I was still dating her older sister... Just sayin... Younger ain't always better... Pros: The handle is collapsible and telescopes down for storage. 6 foot long cables are nice. Cons: If you collapse the handle down, and have two six foot long battery cables and a six foot long power cord, you just collapsed the only thing that you might wrap all those cables and cords around... One might think that in 20 years cable management might have PROgressed, not REgressed... Just sayin.... Not ideal.

If you are looking for a battery charger this is the one to get. It will charge anything you clamp it to. Even if its not a battery

Very nice. I love the 50 amp boost and the jump start. That helps out a lot. That the little charger couldn't take care of. Though on in hindsight I probably should have got the Automatic instead of the manual.

I have a show car that hardly gets driven, 500 miles a year maybe, anyway this I leave on the vehicle it has 2 batteries and it keeps them up where they should be, no more dead batteries,

excelente producto, compacto, 50 amperes son ideal para cargas baterías de maquinaria pesada.

Tamaño compacto!... Pero potente; ya lo use y funciona muy bien. Recomendable

Excelente calidad del producto

Super rápido la entrega

No sé entender cómo funciona no trae manual