The battery chargers from Trotec’s PBCS series offer you the right charger for every vehicle type. The portable battery charger PBCS 10A with a charging current 10 amperes and a backlit LC display is a microprocessor-controlled all-round charger with a 10-stage charging cycle. Whether you use it for quick charging, reconditioning after deep discharging or to ensure that all settings remain the same when the battery is changed – thanks to its excellent full equipment, the PBCS 10A is ideal for maintaining 12 V batteries between 4 Ah and 200 Ah, for example of cars/SUVs, tractors, motor boats, camper vans and transporters. Both non-maintenance-free and maintenance-free 12 V batteries are supported, including wet batteries like lead acid, Ca/Ca and EFB batteries as well as gel and AGM batteries. Adapted to technically advanced and powerful batteries of modern vehicles, the charger offers you a comprehensive range of technical protective and maintenance mechanisms and ensures quick, gentle charging, thus attaining a long battery lifetime at full performance.

If you use a convertible with a seasonal license plate, a classic or vintage car, or if you use your camper van or agricultural machinery only seasonally, you’ll be familiar with this problem: Low temperatures in the winter, rare use, short distance rides and age affect the battery and impair its performance. A lack of maintenance and care considerably decreases the battery’s service life. And this may well be the reason why your car refuses to start from one day to the next.

A problem that is not only time-consuming but also cost-intensive. Especially if a battery replacement is the only way to get your vehicle going again. Although battery technology is already very advanced nowadays, deeply discharged batteries remain the most common cause of breakdowns – and there’s not always a neighbour with a jumper cable on the spot. With the trickle charging mode, the PBCS 10A protects the battery from deep discharge and maintains it at a constantly ideal charging level.

The easy-to-handle PBCS 10A features the following charging programs:

The standard charging mode is suitable for charging partially discharged lead acid and gel type 12 V batteries. The cyclically optimised charging process increases the battery’s service life.

The AGM charging mode is specifically suited for charging 12 V batteries of the AGM type. The cyclically optimised charging process increases the battery’s service life.

Modern batteries (lead acid, AGM and gel) are extremely temperature-sensitive. When the ambient temperature drops below 5 °C, the chemical processes in a lead acid battery slow down. Then the winter charging mode is perfect for quickly charging 12 V batteries in cold environments (-20 °C to +5 °C) with an increased charging end voltage.

The trickle charge mode serves to permanently and reliably compensate for the battery’s self-discharge (lead acid, AGM and gel). The maximum charging capacity is maintained constantly without damaging the battery by excessive charging. Ideally suited to prevent deep discharge of the batteries of rarely used vehicles like vintage cars or convertibles with seasonal licence plates.

The reconditioning mode serves to repair deeply discharged lead acid batteries to ensure that they can resume their nominal capacity. The battery’s lifetime is extended, in many cases reconditioning can prevent the necessity of purchasing a new battery. For batteries with a closed design (e.g. AGM or gel), the reconditioning mode is not suitable.

When a battery has to be disconnected or changed, the PBCS 10A in the supply mode serves as a power source. All electronic settings of the vehicle remain unchanged.