Battery powered switches - Which charger?

[billbuchan]

Hi,

70+ netonix switches so far - powering lots of our 700 antennas. And we love em.

However. We're using massive 110VA 'leisure' gel deep charge batteries - monsters - and we're having difficulty sourcing a decent charger for them. We've blown up a few so far. The winner (so far) is a Halfords car battery charger - which lasted 8 weeks. But. There has to be better ones on the market?

All our sites are AC powered, but with 'flaky' rural supplies. Sticking in a mahuuusive battery will give us the 3+ hours we need to survive power outages.
Which charger are folks using? Is there anything on the market that'll accept solar panels too?
I found this: http://www.digital-loggers.com/poe24.html (which *has* to be the funniest video out there. I mean. KKK. Terrorists. Innuendo. It has it all ;) )

Is there a UK/Jockanese distributor for these that folks know of?
(We're trying out three battery switches - 2 8 port DC's and one 12 port DC - and we'd love to get them into the field. But till we find a decent charger we can trust...)

Many thanks,

---* Bill
https://www.marykirk.com

[sirhc]

If using our SMART DC switches:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3378&p=22255&hilit=+minn#p22255
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3262&p=21596&hilit=+minn#p21596
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2872&p=19828&hilit=+minn#p19828


If using our AC switches:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2776&p=19183&hilit=+tripplite#p19183
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1526&p=11352&hilit=+tripplite#p11352

[billbuchan]

That charger looks amazing! I'm trying to source some here in the UK - I'll keep digging but not getting much success.. If anyone has any ideas?

Many thanks again,

---* Bill

[sirhc]

This is my choice for a 1-4 Battery Bank

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Minn-Kota-On ... thena=true

I would find it hard to believe you can not source this in Europe but if not places like Amazon would surely send them to you