Christie 55amp Battery charger.

One for sale on
www.overlander.com.au/forum/4 sale
Andrewwheredayathinkwer mike?

Well i got one and just got back from four nights away, Deepwater NP, Baffle Creek and Inskip point. Cannot answer question directly but you may be able to work it out as this, a 94 amp hour battery run down to around 12.06 volts recharged fully (near enough) to a digital reading of 12.63v twice used up about 1 tank of fuel.

noisy little critter but when no-one was around at the NP it rechaged in less than an hour. At Inskip i just went up the road and had a beer and rejigged some lines and whalla it was charged.

And i am sort of but not desparate to keen to trade it in on the bigger model so if you are in brissy or could otherwise be bothered you can get in contact me via this email i suppose. Put Christie charger in the subject so i don't lose it in the trash mail deletions.

If i sell will miss the smaller one, sits perfectly (and safely) behind my driver seat underneath the folded down back seat. Even in a rollover it will not be going anywhere.

Hi Rowdy,

May have one after Tuesday. Am heading to Brisy and someone is looking at my Les Christie charger on Sunday. If they don't want it I will still be trying to sell it. Will get back to you with all the info you need including whether it's for sale or not after Tuesday. They are a great little unit!! Give me a ring at home on 07 49363006 tomorrow (Saturday) if you want any further info as I won't be logging on until after Tuesday. However can't say if it's sold until I see the guy in Brisy.

Ray

hope you know they destroy batteries quickly and make one hell of a racket
the camper trailer place we bought it from gave us a refund and he no longer sells them
now have a Honda GXH50 direct coupled to Delco generator limited to 20 amps
this unit is built locally and is quiet and automatically shuts the motor down when the battery is charged
comes complete with tempreture probe that fits inside the battery if you have a lead acid battery
if the battery starts to get to hot the unit reduces the charge amperage by 5 amps

I agree with the last post. I have been charging an optima yellow top for 18 months now with my Christie 55 amp charger, it still sits in my lounge at 12.70v for weeks on end. Not quite "destroyed". Sounds like the person with the dud battery reversed the polarity or had a sulphated battery in the first place. Batteries connected to alternators regulate their own current draw, it is absurd to suggest, as is intimated above, that an alternator run from a 50cc unit would destroy a battery when there are tens of thousands of motor vehicles on the road right now with 1300cc engines to 12cylinder diesel trucks with ? ( how many litres big are engines on trucks ?) that happily recharge their batteries with alternators with a significantly more output than a 55amp Bosch alternator. Hell my 3400cc prado is mated to a 90 amp alternator, my battery at the end of that set up is very happy and works fine.