Printable View
Today I was doing research on battery chargers for work and found the NOCO brand charger. This charger no matter which one with how many banks, they all have positive reviews. I currently have a ProMarine onboard, but this has me wondering if I need to swap over.
Do any of you have any input on NOCO? Price point wise the gap is $12 difference in favor of the NOCO.
I have a NOCO. Works great, no problems. You'll find most lithium battery sellers recommend NOCO.
I have good results too. Keep ‘em in mind should you need to replace in the future.
Good results. I have mixed type batteries and you can program each bank for different type batteries. I have two of the 3 bank units. Neither boat has caught on fire as of today.
I've never had any problems with Pro Marine. Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
My boat came with a NOCO 4 bank it lasted less than a year and one bank went out. It was slowly replaced under warranty and the replacement has been going for 5 years.
If it’s working I wouldn’t replace it .but if it goes out my choice would be NoCo had a pro marine that lasted only few days past warranty and of course wouldn’t make it up so I went with NoCo very pleased .:twocents
I have a Pro Marine 3 bank. It has worked great.
If it dies maybe I replace it with something different. Until then I will let it do it's job
My Dual Pro 3 bank 10 amp has been flawless going on 22 years, I probably just jinxed it.
Oh I'm definitely not in the business of buying and replacing things that work. I'll keep this on the back burn when and if mine fails or I need to upgrade. I know the ProMarine has served me well for 2 years now.
My 1st promarine 4 bank lasted 16 years my 2nd one is going on 5. I bought a single bank noco for my shop and it's been good for 2 years so far.
NOCO chargers work, but I don’t care for them. Two reasons:
They have been known to allow interference from trolling motor to electronics if one bank is connected to the cranking/electronics battery and one or more other banks are connected to TM batteries.
They screwed me over on a warranty issue. I had a battery leak and had to replace a ring terminal on bank one of my three bank charger. Bank two of the charger later failed, and they declined to honor the warranty because of my unrelated repair. I’m no doubt more qualified than anybody who works for them to change a terminal, but they chose to be weasels.
My Promariner had an issue a couple years ago, I called and they had a fix. I've posted about it before, something to do with the battery selector.
Last week it did the same thing, so I guess it's time for an upgrade. Got 3 1/2 years out of it which isn't too bad I guess.
:hesaidQuote:
Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill
Don't overlook the Minn Kota Precision series chargers. They can be set to charge various types of batteries including lithium like the NOCO's.
Before the precision series they had what was called a digital series and I use that for 16 years on the precious boat with a single problem. Digital is still available nt sure if it handles lithium batteries or not. .
My experience has been that about 10 years ago i bought a 2 bank Pro Mariner for a 17’ Key West.
After a couple years i had some corrosion issues on a few of the in line fuses.
I called the company, talked with a rep, and he sent me enough new fuse holders to replace all of them.
After about 6 years i had other issues, and called them again.
This time i was told to replace the charger.
Then the guy offered to sell me a new one direct at a discount since i was already a customer.
A few days later it arrived and is still on the boat.
About 3 years ago i bought a new aluminum jon boat, and i went online and bought another 2 bank Pro Mariner.
The leads werent long enough to reach one of the batteries, so i called them again asking about extending one of the leads.
Dont do that i was told or you will violate the warranty.
So they sold me a 10’ extension set of wires which i paid for with a credit card.
When they came i finished the installation.
About 10 months later, i had a failure, so i called them again.
I told them them what the issue was and the guy asked for the serial number of the unit.
He then told me that the unit was over a year old and they wouldnt stand behind it.
I told him that i could verify the date i had bought it online, also asked that he look up the date of the purchase of the cable extension required to hook it up.
Nothing worked, the date it was made was all that mattered, and they didnt offer to sell me a new one at a discount.
I was a bit ticked to say the least, and told him i would buy a different product before buying another of theirs.
Next day i went to Academy Sports, and bought a Minn Kota 2 bank which was a bit cheaper in price than a Pro Mariner.
But i did reuse the Pro Mariner cable extension. lol
Warranty is voided by cutting the leads on most brands I believe. That is not limited to Noco. I know for sure Promariner has the same policy.Quote:
Originally Posted by CatFan
i had a ionic charger that was bought with lithium batteries, it had charged 7 cycles but was over 1 year old i was told it was out of warranty. I was then told that the chargers were b/o so i waited several weeks to no avail. Started looking around on the net found the Noco charger and was told by a lithium battery dealer that noco was the way to go. I'm tickled with my noco!:check
I have had ProMarine, Noco, and Minn Kota. They are all good chargers and I never had any issues with any of them.