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How To Choose A Car Battery Charger For Your Vehicle

When it comes to selecting the eight auto parts and accessories for your vehicle, the options might seem limitless and confusing. But you should always make an informed choice to ensure a smooth and safe ride. Here is some information to help you choose the right charger for your vehicle battery.

Type of battery chargers

Type of battery chargers

Batteries from a variety of cars can be charged using the two charger types, C3 and C7.

For batteries with lower voltages (6V or 12V), the C3 charger is best suited; while the C7 charger is its big brother capable of charging batteries of higher voltages (12V or 24V).

Let's understand each one individually and then see how you may use these chargers to recharge the battery in your car:

Bosch C3 Battery Charger

The Bosch C3 Battery Charger is an intelligent four-stage automatic Battery Charger with pulse charging and trickle charging capabilities.

Features and Benefits:

  • C3 Battery Charger automatically detects 6V or 12V lead acid batteries and the required charge rate which ensures convenience and easy operation.
  • C3 Battery Charger has the ability to monitor the battery and keep it at full state charge which extends the battery service life.

Bosch C7 Battery Charger

If Bosch C7 Battery Charger is an intelligent six-stage automatic charger with great extra features including regeneration mode and power backup best suited for heavy passenger and commercial vehicles.

Features and Benefits:

  • C7 Battery Charger automatically detects 12V or 24V lead acid batteries and the required charge rate which ensures convenience and easy operation.
  • The Bosch C7 Battery Charger is ideal for charging and maintaining lead-acid wet, gel, AGM, and VRLA/SLA Batteries up to 230Ah (12V) / 120Ah (24V).
  • With its regeneration mode, it can recover deeply discharged batteries with a constant current of 1500ma. In addition, power backup can be used to supply power to the vehicle’s electrical system maintaining the system’s setting whilst charging the battery.

Get superior performance and excellent reliability with the Bosch range of 6V & 12V, AGM & SLI Batteries & Chargers for bikes, passenger cars & commercial vehicles.