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Pros & Cons
Pros
The schumacher 1280 is an automotive battery charger, but it is also much more. The first two of these eliminate the guessing you'd experience with a comparably priced charger. This charger/maintainer is for my large trolling motor's battery. Very ple... Read More
The charger charges your battery at 2 the first, at 3 amp, is intended as a traditional trickle charger. The voltage at the end of the process gives a good assessment of the state of the charged battery.
Cons
A query to the manufacturer was not answered. Ruined two batteries.
The unit defaults to the higher voltage and current of an agm. When power is lost to the sc-1200a, it does nothing but come on and display the actual voltage at the battery *. This model has a few problems, starting with a bad cooling fan or a bad the... Read More
Highlights
Quality
It’s intuitive to use and i’m very happy with this product.
Not too easy to find a 6/12 volt quality battery charger anymore, totally easy to use!
It sat for about 9 months with the battery unhooked but still in the truck.
Price
Both spoke glowingly about schumacher's reputation and the advanced-for-its price range features that its 1280 and near sib 128... Read More
Shipping
Then you can select slow or fast along with it will shut down when complete.
Packaging/appearance
Worked easy right out of the box.
Competitiveness
I use a deltran battery tender for my motorcycles and have not used this charger for them.
I end up forcing it to chage bewtween 15amp and 3amp setting.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
charged, great, easy, first and good. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 930.
- Previous analysis of this listing was an C grade.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.0% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 11,352 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 12 2023.
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Directions were not specific to the model and were confusing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Did not seem to start as soon as directions said it would
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For peace of mind and to know the thing is actually on and working would have chosen a different make and model
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive given several away and my son when younger thought he moved the charger out of the way enough when pulling his truck forward and lets just say he didnt
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Other then that i bought my first one from a garage sale and it was very old when i payed a dollar for it and that one was the only one that just stopped working
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
What is the best features are first you can see the current voltage and percent charged
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then you can select slow or fast along with it will shut down when complete
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I never had tried to charge a battery
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