![]() ![]() Its size is welcome compared to most of the fragile, toy-like devices on the market, and the backlight is convenient when fumbling around in a dark garage. Overall it’s a really nice bit of kit as far as trickle chargers go. ![]() Then switching over to a stored car it topped up the charge and has then been maintaining it since with the display showing ‘Full’. Using it to charge a battery that was nearly dead was nice and easy, leaving it a few hours to ultimately bring it back to life. You can’t damage the charger either as there’s short circuit and reverse polarity detection, just in case. Safe to say you could leave the unit outside on the wall of your garage without worry. The whole unit is also IP65 rated, which means total protection from dust and low-pressure water from any direction. So the power cuts, comes back on and it resumes winter mode on 12v, perfect. It also remembers the last mode it was set too, handy as for our use the trickle charger was on a timer, so it’s not on 24/7. But the crocodile clips are well made and feel of high quality. The O-ring connectors are a little useless for most modern cars, as they’re either too small, or you have nowhere easy to connect the negative too as there’s only a positive terminal. Instead of just putting a fixed rate of charge into the battery, the Ring RSC806 uses a seven stage process to look after your battery. There’s also a winter mode to protect batteries during colder temperatures, as well as being ‘smart‘ to not damage batteries that are fitted to Start/Stop vehicles. The screen also shows charging voltage and whether you’ve selected car, motorcycle, 6v, 12v etc. It’s handy having a progress bar as you can see there’s actually life in the battery and that it’s taking charge – most other trickle chargers simply have an LED that says if it’s charging or full. It would have been nice to add a way to properly fix it to the wall, rather than just hang and wobble around, but that’s the only gripe over the design.Īfter attaching the connectors it took a few seconds for it to pick up the battery, then it began charging. As with all Ring products the smart battery charger feels sturdy and well made, even the hook at the top feels solid and can twist either way as well as be stowed in the back of the unit. ![]()
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