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Black & Decker VEC1087CBD Smart Battery 10/6/2 Amp Battery Charger | 
| Brand: Black & Decker
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $43.99
as of 7/30/2010 21:35 CDT details
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 3634
Media: Tools & Hardware
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 7 x 8
MPN: VEC1087CBD
Model: VEC1087CBD
UPC: 617977108761
EAN: 0617977108761
ASIN: B000EJTI4G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Spark-resistant design for added safety | | • | Reverse hook-up warning alarm to prevent damage to vehicle or electronics | | • | Features easy connectivity for battery clips and ring terminals or vehicle DC plug | | • | Two year warranty | | • | Spark resistant reverse hook-up protection |
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Product Description
* Fully Automatic Electronic
* Five Minute Charge To Start-4 1/2 Hours To Full Charge
* Three Stage Automatic Rapid Charging
* Light Weight, High Efficiency Design
* Heavy-Duty Cables And Clamps
* Charging Complete Indicator
* Reverse Polarity Protection (No Spark) For User
* Compensates For Low Ac From Extension Cord Use
* Microprocessor Control (Digital Smart Control)
* Digital Diagnostics & Fault Codes
* High Frequency Power Conversion Technology
* Automatic Float Mode Monitoring
* Compensates For Low Ac Extension Cord Use
* Reverse Polarity Indicator
* Vehicle Alternator Check
* Ul Listed
* 5 Year Limited Warranty
Amazon.com Product Description
When your car battery goes dead, a jump-start is only a quick fix for the problem that may reoccur. The solution is to recharge the battery, using a product like the Black & Decker Smart Battery Charger. Fully Automatic Charging
The Smart Battery Charger is fully automatic and electronic, with a Digital Smart microprocessor control and an LED indicator for selecting your charging rate. The three stage automatic rapid charging operates at 10 amps, 6 amps, and 2 amps, with an average 5 minute engine start time and 4.5 hour full battery charge. 
The Smart Battery Charger features 3-stage technology. View larger. | 
This device also features a reverse hook-up warning alarm. | 
The LED display lets you know when the battery is fully charged. | Works with Any Vehicle
The Smart Battery Charger is ideal for any 12-volt lead-acid battery types, including those that power cars, boats, lawn mowers, RVs, ATVs, and more. State-of-the-Art Technology
It uses a 3-stage automatic high-frequency charging technology to build the battery back up to its normal output level, making it more efficient at charging than conventional model chargers. Built-in Safety Precautions
The Smart Battery Charger also has a spark-resistant reverse hook-up and overcharge protection circuit built into it to insure that the clamps are not accidentally affixed to the opposite terminals, which would damage the battery. The automatic float mode monitoring tells the unit when the battery is ready to avoid overcharging. Warranty
Black & Decker offers a full 2-year warranty.
What's in the box
The Black & Decker Smart Battery Charger unit and heavy-duty cables and clamps.
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| Customer Reviews:
 These chargers are good but have some caveats July 8, 2010
David
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good battery charger that tries to do the least damage to the battery when charging while also trying to post the least risk of fire hazard. Most battery chargers can be annoying, especially these smart chargers but they do what they do mostly to protect the user and the battery. Most batteries have issues with charging because the voltage is too low and or you choose too fast of a charge rate. Charging severely discharged batteries is difficult whether it be a smart or a dumb charger.
Here is the procedure for charging 12v batteries that are very discharged with a standing voltage of less than 9V. First you attach the battery charger to the dead battery. Then, with some jumper cables, attach a mostly charged battery (around 12v) to the dead battery in parallel using the jumper cables (Positive to Positive, Negative to Negative). The charger should detect a voltage of 12v, then charge at the lowest rate (2 amps) with this configuration for at least 3 hours. After 3 hours, you should be able to disconnect the "good" (charged) battery and be able to continue charging the "bad" (discharged) battery at the lowest charge rate. If you're desperate to get things up and running ASAP, wait until the battery is charged up to 11.8V then if you want, you can choose a higher charge rate. Don't choose a fast charge rate when bringing a severely discharged battery up to 11v otherwise you'll receive error codes.
Error codes are very common and you pretty much have to play around with it until it begins to charge.
Battery chargers don't allow for charging of severely discharged batteries as a precaution because they don't want people charging 6V batteries accidentally or creating sparks by having it output 10a of electricity when there isn't anything hooked up. I've successfully charged about 15 car batteries with about 8 of them below 3V, some as low as 0V with this method. These chargers work great, it's just that you have to understand how they work in order to get them to do what you want.
Purrrrrfect March 28, 2010
Thomas J. Hanlon
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Have not used it yet, But being Black and Decker i am
sure that i will have many years with it.
 Not too sure March 4, 2010
Ryan Swanson (Wyoming, USA)
I bought this charger from Walmart about a year ago. The only time it has truly worked was when I used it to charge my sit down lawn mower when I got out after the winter and it worked perfectly. But then I used it on my car and it was saying there were faults then i used it on both my motorcycles and same thing. I jump the batteries with a car because the charger says that it can't charger if the battery has too little juice but it hasn't made a difference. I was starting to wonder if the charger was breaking the batteries. I've replaced my car and one of my motorcycle batteries because I thought they were ruined and i was about to replace the other but i wanted to see if there were reviews online about this charger and some of the other reviews sound similar and that their batteries were still fine and that it was just the charger so now i want to try a different charger or something. Hopefully it didn't break my batteries but either way you should probably stay away from this charger because although it appears nice at first it ends up causing more trouble
 Works sometimes; Doesn't work sometimes. Not Dependable February 13, 2010
Donald Gillette (Nashville)
Right after I bought this, I took it home, hooked it up to a dying battery in my Nissan Frontier and it had me back and running within 2 hours. I thought it was great.
Six months later, when my Craftsman Lawn Tractor battery died, I hooked it up to that. In less than 2 minutes, it said I was fully charged, but wasn't even close. Then I used the 75 amp "quick start" function...watched the display count down from 90 seconds and when it said, "Start Now", I cranked the thing. Nothing. So I went back to the charge cycle--it said it was charging at 25 amps and in less than a minute, it said fully charged. Baloney. There's not a spark in that battery.
Today, I tried to charge the battery in my Nissan Frontier again (I hardly ever drive it). Same thing happened as happened with the lawn tractor battery. The unit tells me the battery is fully charged, it won't deliver the "quick start" option, and the battery is almost stone cold dead. You turn the key and hear click-click-click-click-click-click.
Plus, I don't mind this being made in China. That's fine with me. But if they're going to print the manual in China--I just wish they'd have someone who could speak, read, and write English to edit the thing before they put it in the box! Reading the manual is like reading the subtitles to a Chinese movie where everyone's speaking Mandarin. "Please to connect the cables one red and one black to posts in order of succession." How about "The red clamp is positive (+) and the black clamp is negative(-). Connect the red clamp to the positive terminal of the battery and the black clamp to the negative terminal. If you don't understand this, close the hood and call a mechanic." Wouldn't that be better?
Picture is not the same as product shipped January 23, 2010
jimbob (DENVER, CO, US)
Ordered this charger, while it was the same model and had the same capability, got a cheaper version than what is pictured on the site. Charger shipped had the low end uninsulated type battery clamps rather than the nice heavy duty ones pictured on th website ad (like the ones you see on the 6 amp and lesser trickle chargers of same brand). Secondly, was under the impression that the charger had a reconditioning feature, which it did not.
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