Date:         Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:23:27 -0700
Reply-To:     Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
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From:         Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
Subject:      Canadian Tire "Eliminator" Smart charger too noisy for camping
              use?
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Many old loaf Westy's came with a stock built in 12V transformer for camping
use. My '95 EV westy has one also. But the '82 Westy doesn't.

I was thinking of building in a modern smart charger into the '82 (instead of just a
12-14V power transformer). I have a Canadian Tire 12/8/2A "Eliminator Intelligent
Battery Charger" since about 2 years. With a three stage charge cycling, it seems to have
a great reconditioning effect on my (often old) batteries. These are also reasonably
cheap ($79 regular, but often on sale for $49). Much cheaper than a high end charger
from e.g. Xantrex.

Only hitch I can think of is that mine has a high pitched noise from the PWM circuits.
I first thought this might be characteristic of most modern switched supplies, but a
friend said it is not necessarily so.

Therefore I was wondering: Does anyone else have this charger? Does it have the
high pitched wistling? (Not the fan noise, but a higher tone; the fan can easily be
exchanged). I was thinking maybe I only got a bad unit.

Martin




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