Description
BatteryMINDer® Solar Charger Controller 12 Volt with 15 Watt Panel
Charger-Maintainer-Conditioner (Desulfator)
Don’t just charge your batteries…Condition them!
The BatteryMINDer® is a 3-mode charger/maintainer/conditioner that extends performance and life of all types/sizes/brands of 12 Volt lead acid batteries. These include maintenance-free, marine, deep cycle, sealed, gel, and all popular brands of AGM dry-type, valve-regulated batteries, such as Interstate, Exide, Optima, Odyssey, Trojan and U.S. Battery.
The BatteryMINDer® automatically dissolves harmful power-robbing sulfation using safe, patented high-frequency pulse technology1. Guaranteed to increase your battery’s life and performance, or you get 100% of your money back within 1-year.
1 Sulfation is the #1 cause of early battery failure and loss of performance as determined by the Battery Council International, Dec. 1998.
Features
- 15 watt amorphous silicon solar panel
- Allows you to charge and maintain 1 to 6 batteries (12 Volt parallel-connected or 6 Volt series- connected) at a time.
- Safely charges-maintains-conditions all size and type starter, deep cycle, maintenance-type, maintenance-free, sealed, AGM, gelled or dry-type batteries.
- Automatically removes (dissolves) harmful sulfation using safe, U.S. patented electronic pulse technology.
- The unit automatically desulfates both in the charging and the maintenance modes.
- Guaranteed to never overcharge any battery, regardless of how long connected.
- No need to add water to maintenance-type batteries during long, non-use storage.
- Isolation transformer and smart chip technology ensure safe, long-term performance.
- Shuts off completely when sunlight is reduced with no drain on the batteries.
- Splash proof, conformal-coated circuitry ensures trouble-free life even in high-moisture marine environments.
- Allows battery to be stored safely at 0°F to +120°F.
- Designed and engineered in the USA.
- Built in strict accordance with ISO 9001 Quality Certification.
- Full year 100% money-back guarantee takes the risk out of trying this great product.
- Five (5) year warranty covers solar controller except physical abuse.
- Two (2) year warranty on solar panel excludes physical abuse.
- The unit comes with a Battery Condition Indicator that has a push button for testing the condition of the battery.
Not for use with Aviation Specific batteries. See models 12248-AA-S1 and 24041-AA-S1 aviation specific charger-maintainer-desulfator-conditioners
Instructions
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General Specifications
| Input |
16-24 volts DC solar power |
| Output |
12 volts @ 1 Amp |
| Charge Voltage |
14.2 Vdc |
| Float Voltage |
13.2 volts |
| Desulfation Pulse |
1.0 A @ 3.26 MHz |
| Float Current |
5 mA – 1 Amp2 |
| Size/Weight |
3-3/4” L x 2-1/2” W x 1-1/2” H / 1 lb (without the panel) |
| Solar Panel Size/Weight: |
12-1/2” W x 36” H / 9.5 lbs |
2 Actual current output is determined by individual battery demand.
An important question
An Important QUESTION you should know the answer to before making a buying decision:
Why would you or anyone pay up to $150 for any battery charger, when there are dozens of much less expensive, good quality chargers from which to choose?
ANSWER:
- The cost of the average starter or deep cycle battery is $85, with an average-life of three (3) years (200 full charge – discharge cycles). Many types, such as sealed AGM, Gel or spiral-wound “dry” (Optima, Odyssey, Exide, etc.) cost considerably more ($125 - $175 ea.). They also will not reach their full design life of five or more years, unless they are properly “treated” during their entire lifetime.
- The Average performance of all battery types, over their life, diminishes to 50% of original. Measured in either cranking-amps (starter type battery) or ampere-hours (deep cycle battery), your battery has “shrunk” when compared to its original performance and capacity by 50% or more, before it finally dies. The major reason (believed by many authorities to be 75% -90% of the cause) for this loss is not just “old age”, but a condition known as "sulfation”.
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What is Sulfation (sul-fay-shun) and How Does It Affect Batteries? |
| What makes the BatteryMINDer® desulfation method unique? |