Victron Energy Blue Smart IP65 12-Volt 25 amp 230V, Battery Charger, Bluetooth (UK)

As described and no issues works perfectly in my camper

Brilliant

My Solar Panel setup has two 100ah LifePO4 Batteries with built in Battery Management Systems (BMS). The BMS protects the batteries, including the battery temperature, overcharging or the voltage falling too low/undercharging (Under Voltage Protection UVP)..The problem is that when the voltage falls below the trigger level, the BMS UVP steps in and cuts off the battery voltage and from then on, the battery voltage reads as zero.Most Battery Chargers that are 'supposedly' suitable for LifePO4 Batteries, will not recognise this scenario/state and as such, will not charge the battery, no matter how long you leave it connected.However, when the Victron Energy Blue Smart Charger is connected to the battery, it intitially carries out a test and if there is no voltage, it will automatically reset the BMS UVP and start the charging process. For this reason alone, this battery charger is worth paying more for.This Victron Charger oozes quality, it is well designed and constructed and is simple enough to use straight out of the box. You just need to select the battery type and leave it to it.Once connected it carries out a quick battery test and within minutes, it is pumping up to 15 amps into the battery (if required).The Victron App is quite useful in that you can view the charging process from a short distance, but it is not essential and BE AWARE that you do need to be quite close to the Charger, i.e., you can't check it from a different location. It will reach from my house to the garage but no further.To conclude, no major issues to date but I will edit this review if necessary. It works really well and I have no hesitation in Highly Recommending this upmarket charger.

Victron products are renowned for their quality, I have already purchased a solar charger for my portable Lithium power station and I have been super happy with it.This battery charger oozes quality the moment you remove it from its packaging. The first thing you will notice is its weight, this thing is not a lightweight, flimsy regular charger.It will work out of the box, however if you have the Victron app installed on your smart phone, you will be able to select the appropriate charge mode and also monitor the voltage and the current.You will have two cable options in the box, either crocodile clips or ring connectors to permanently fix to your battery, I decided to modify the ring connector cable and fitted a 50amp Anderson plug.If you can push the boat out, buy this charger rather than a cheaper one that may "appear" to have similar spec - remember, this charger will also recondition dead batteries, several Youtube professionals have praised this charger for its performance.10/10

I had initially purchased a C-Tek charger, however I found that that wasn’t performing very well for me. The Victron alternative was slightly more expensive but is clearly in a different league in terms of performance connectivity and build quality. I can’t imagine a better battery charger.

Purchased what i thought was a good quality charger with app control/monitoring, and at first it turned out to be an ideal choice. Knowing that the name was synonymous in the power & battery charging systems i expected the best, but obviously this was not the case. The first and only use was to monitor and maintain the battery on my car, as being a sports cabriolet that to be honest i only use during spring to autumn as its no use in bad wintery weather, so it was connected to my blue smart 12v/15a charger i n my garage, and initially it worked fine allowing me to monitor the charging cycles/recovery & maintenance via the app, and with the fantastic claims of reliability/waterproof CE IP65, ZERO MAINTENACE, i left it connected through the winter months, but when i brought the car out of hibernation the charger was not working (mains fuse and power supply okay), battery was flat, and luckily with the battery being a new 2024 YAUSA branded it was recovered using my old boost starter charger unit.Being that I had the 5 year guarantee as support I tried to contact VICTRON but the UK suppler was not so easy to locate, and on advice of contacting the uk rep, i tried to get support but he was no help,so i managed to locate and access the international customer support portal, placed a support ticket with them requesting replacement/repair but have not even had an acknowledgement email(zero support) .Coming back to AMAZON for help, & even though the return window had well passed they were very supportive and actioned a return/full refund for me and they handle the product return on my behalf, so at least all was not lost as this item is not the cheapest, and certainly in my experience certainly not the best.

Ideal, but the instructions were limited although it is just plug and play effectively I had to find a lot of information on line about charging cycles and charging times, it can be hours for the charger to fully charge a battery and this seems to vary each day as I use my daily.The associated app is ideal for checking the settings and changing the charging you require as using the button on the front of the charger is pretty useless, the charger I believe is preset to deliver 4a (amps) this can be changed in the app to 14a which is better suited