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Old 06-15-2004 | 11:04 AM
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Originally posted by JayBee
i'm in the market for a NEW charger soon and my heart is set on the Turbo 35, but after being at a race this past weekend and actually seeing the Pro-trak plus reading through this thread, it looks like i'm gonna have to do some research on this charger. But what it comes to is this.... BESIDES THE SIZE (size doesn't matter to me...no pun intended ), what advantage does this charger have over the Turbo 35? the GFX DOES IT ALL right?
What are you guys BOTTOM LINE CHOICE.
Phil the designer of the Protrak keeps an eye also on the small details. Some of them are not found with some of the other chargers.

- if there is a power failure during charge, the Protrak will automatically do a restart if the power comes on again. OK this feature also could be found with other chargers, but some of them loose the information of charge capacity before that power failure and will start at zero again. This is very annoying and will not be found with the Protrak.

- there is a part charge programm which is very useful. If you want charging the battery just for storing some time you could select how much capacity you want charging into the battery. You donīt need charging the full capacity if you donīt want. Very few chargers will do that.

- if you donīt have a mains voltage (right word?) and you have to use a car battery for powering up the charger the Protrak will even work at 10V only. Most chargers donīt like a voltage supply that low and will reduce charging current at about 11,5v or will stop working at that low voltage.

- from what I have seen since now the Protrak is the only charger showing a value for delta peak voltage at the display. So you will see if there is a false peak with a battery or you also can see when the battery has reached itīs highest voltage during charge and will be near end of charge. This is very useful if you want charging as close as possible to the start of a race. Very interesting for stock racing.

There are so much other features with the Protrak Iīm not using but at least the above are important in my opinion and I really never had the feeling I bought the wrong charger.
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