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Good morning, folks! I need a new shop battery charger and am looking for recommendations. I need one to maintain camper batteries through the winter, and also for general automotive use. Don't need a super duper one, but don't mind paying for what I need. Needs to be automatic, as I might forget to disconnect it sometime...... Thanks!
 
There are a couple of different ways you could go.  The camper batteries just need a maintainer-charge and you can do that with an inexpensive ($10-$20) trickle/maintenance charger from Harbor Freight or Walmart.  I use one of those to keep up the battery in the car I leave stored all summer at our primary Florida home.  Then buy a 6A-15A automotive-style charger for the shop for general charging use.
Maybe something like this one: https://www.harborfreight.com/automatic-battery-float-charger-42292.html

Or this more sophisticated one:  https://www.amazon.com/Mroinge-maintainer-Automotive-Motorcycle-powersport/dp/B01FTPZ6P4

The other way is to buy a better quality multi-stage charger that can do both, but they are quite a bit more expensive.  The mid-price models are microprocessor controlled with selectable charge ranges and the higher priced ones do auto multi-stages (bulk, absorption, float).  A selectable charge model might be one like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Schumacher-SSC-1500A-CA-SpeedCharge-Charger-Battery/dp/B000H961YI

And a better grade example might be:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PKIBVU0/
 
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