Schumacher Electric Wheeled Manual 10A Car Battery Charger and 200A Engine Starter, 2-in-1 Solution, 40A Boost, for 6V/12V Power Sport, Automotive, and Marine Batteries, SC1446

Sturdy well made, good battery charger for fast high amp charging, not used for float or trickle modes. Great for dead vehicle battery jump start.

excellent charger with manual timer works very well also is well made and light weight

It has all the settings that I needed and work's great very good quality

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.

Great charger easy to use and came completely assembled would recommend to anyone.

Unit works perfectly for the most part. It has a timer , that doesn't seem to work , but that doesn't bother me much. I would like to see larger clamps on this unit. The ones that come with this unit , just barely with finangling , over top of a battery terminal clamp. I've had no problem starting a twin battery diesel.When the batteries were dead with this unit. Or turned all the way down to 10 amp And allow it to Charge all day.

Bought 1 for my dad a couple of years ago, its worked so well I bought myself 1 & have been extremely happy with it. Gives old batteries a lasting charge if they don't have a dead cell.

Bought this is January 24. Went to use it this January, rolled it to the vehicle and plugged it in. Needed to move it a little closer to connect cables, and sparks shot out the vents as a short took place. This case is very hard to remove, to get access to the inside. What I saw was a hot wire terminal had fallen off the connection point and fallen against the case, which created the grounding. I was able to reconnect the wire- but the unit is dead, so the short damaged something in the circuitry.That means the repair may be more expensive than replacing the unit. It's just days out of warranty, past return limits. This was a replacement for a previous Schumaker charger that had worked for over 30 years, that had a timer switch quit working. I gave that to a friend who replaced the timer- and it still works. Companies often decide to cuts costs to keep prices low and profits coming. The terminals involved here were surprisingly poor, not typical at all- and I think the unit failure is due to nothing more than going cheap to save pennies, at the cost of quality and reliability .... And, of reputation. A good brand is worth a lot, provided it represents quality products. In my view, it no longer does. NEW INFO- and sadly worse, which is why my original 3-star rating is now a 1-star. Given I had no warranty, I looked into the costs of service- which are about the same as the cost of the machine. So, I decided to open it up and see if I could do my own repair. As I have been in the manufacturing business for many years, designed and built dozens of products, I'm not an average DIY guy. So... First step, open the case- and that immediately made matters worse. Not only is it difficult; there are parts that are held in place by friction alone; no fasteners. The ammeter and lens is one of them, they just push into a hole. The cord to the ammeter is not connected except by passing through a loop, which is fine except the cord isn't supported either, so the meter and lens immediately fell out, but access to replace them is poor. Overall, I found the inner construction to be as cheap as possible. Every corner cut. While it may work fine out of the box, the idea that it will last for years is no longer realistic. The quality it takes to ensure that durability is just not there. I hate to see a brand name that has meant quality for decades prostituted for profit, by gutting the quality out of the product and riding the brand loyalty- and I think that is what has happened here. Schumacher dominates the market for these things, but now, they are actually China-made. What's more, they now make chargers for other brand names, simply by making minor changes in the cosmetics of the case, so that if you buy a similar competing product- most likely you are still buying theirs, and getting the same compromised designs, materials and workmanship. The saddest part is that with a few exceptions, the cost of building in durability is not that much, they sold their good name very cheap.