NOCO Genius Multi-Bank Smart Battery Charger - AC to DC - 4 Bank - 6V/12V - 8 Amp

Video Transcript for NOCO Genius Multi-Bank Smart Battery Charger Review

What's up everyone, Adam here and welcome to the garage. So, this is the house on the property where we have a lot of fun, we have a lot of toys, but what we're gonna be doing today is taking a look at the NOCO charger. So, a lot of our machines have batteries and as the winter months start to come through and we start to use these a little bit more, those batteries start to kind of fall off. So, we want to maintain them, right So basically, what we got going is the NOCO Genius 2X2. So, basically what that means is we're gonna have two amp hours for two different slots. So, two amp hours going out to our four wheeler and then two amp hours going out to our Jeep.

Two amps are not really something we usually recommend for the bigger stuff, but we're just trying to maintain the vehicles that are here and we don't drive them every single day. So, over a couple of days, it's gonna work out pretty well just to kind of maintain all this. So, all I gotta do is just click it to AGM for our Jeep and it's gonna start charging. And then for our four wheeler, it's just another, just standard 12 volt battery. So we go ahead and turn that on.

So, what I just realized is I don't have the battery connected. So, basically all we got to do is just follow our long leads. We're gonna have a little connection right here which is really cool, so these are gonna just be really nice for adding different accessories, like the extension cable that comes with the kit. So, 10 foot extension right here, going all the way down to our little clamps. So these are gonna go on the terminals of our battery and the battery's on this side actually, and 10 foot actually works out pretty good.

So, with these clamps one, I like the clamps 'cause they're nice and low profile, right. So, with some of these four wheeler batteries are kind of in there and tucked away, so with this, it's really nice for me to kind of get down here and I can kind of slide these clamps in there to get a clean connection. I have a decent spring on them too, so they're not gonna come undone. And, so the top of kind of this usually goes from the top on our positive right there. So now that that's all hooked up, we're ready to rep, there are a couple of different options when it comes to accessories.

There's actually a lot on our website. So basically, what I would like to do with this is there's an extra little piece that we can connect onto here. And it'll just give us some ring terminals, so you can actually just keep it connected to the battery. And then whenever you're ready to charge, grab this side, we're gonna take the little cover off and then plug it on it. So, convenience is definitely the name of the game when it comes to these NOCO Genius chargers, I really like them. So now that's all connected up, and one other thing right here, we do have a fuse, so we don't have to worry about it. Damaging our battery or damaging the charger. So now that's all done, we should be able to charge it up at the wall, now that it's connected, so that's good. A lot of the times, once you set it up and then we connect it up again, it's gonna remember what we've done last. So, we don't really have to set it, but right now, as you can see over there, we don't have it set 'cause we just plugged it in for the first time, so with this one, it's only gonna take one button because the first little option's just gonna be our standard 12 volt. So let's click that and it will start charging. So the good thing about this is it's gonna be a smart charger. It's gonna kind of get an idea of where your battery's at. So, this one it's gonna kind of calculate that. And eventually it's gonna go up to green, which this one did, so it was a good battery. We've been doing a lot of different charges today. So these batteries are pretty charged up. So, if we did have a AGM battery, we just have to click it again. If we had a lithium battery, we'd have to click it again. And then if we hold it down, we could do six volts as well. But this brings me to this little series of led indicators. So that one right there that just went off, we have it hooked up to a 12 volt battery, but we tried to charge it with the six. So that's gonna let you know that there's too much voltage in the battery for the setting, so if that comes up, just make sure you know exactly what battery you're going for. This next one, we really don't like to see this one light up because it just means we have a bad battery. We don't have a recovery mode on this, but some of the larger chargers, like the NOCO Genius 10 has a 12 volt battery recovery. So, if you see that on this, and if you have the other kind, you can actually force charge it to see if we can kind of recover that battery. With the next one, this is gonna just let you know if you are reversing your positive and negative on your battery, but it is smart. It's not going to push that juice through so you don't have to worry about damaging anything, but it will let you know. And this last little indicator is gonna let us know if it's too hot if this is lit up. It's gonna be above 104 degrees Fahrenheit. And if all of them are lit up, that means it's gonna be a little too cold, which is about -4 degrees, That's kind of a lot. This thing is going to be able to take a lot, especially when mother nature gets a little vicious. So, this is gonna be waterproof, it's gonna be dustproof and same with all of our different connections. There are a lot of, and I mean a lot of different accessories. I really love these chargers. They are what we use here 'cause they're very, very smart. They can detect what kind of batteries they are. They can recover some of the batteries if you grab the right kind, but also just with all the different accessories that we can add to it. It kind of just seemed to me like a no brainer. With this charger for each port, which there's two of them. We're gonna have about 2 amps coming out of each of them. So that's not a whole lot for some of your larger rigs. This is our Jeep, it's an old Jeep, it's an old diesel and we don't really drive it a whole lot and it's kind of cold natured. So, this isn't the best for those larger stuff, but we're not really looking for a fast charge, we're looking for a maintainer and this is doing exactly that. We just wanna make sure that the batteries are gonna stay nice and charged up. So, whenever we do want to fire this puppy up, it's gonna have enough juice to kind of get those glow plugs completely heated up. So, this thing will start when you go down to the lake, which is exactly what we want to do. And this charger's just going to maintain our equipment. But if you don't have majority smaller toys like us and you have a bunch of bigger stuff, whether it's just big side-by-sides or just more Jeeps like we have, we do have some GenPro Genius chargers and they are gonna be a little bit beefier for some of the bigger stuff, so, if you have different rigs than what we have here, we have a lot of different options on our website. So just go on there, watch a video and then go ahead and add it onto your wall, just to maintain all your machines. As of right now, we only have two machines in this garage but we can fit more, so as it kind of goes on and we put more stuff in the garage, once we start to finish it, there is a 4 version of this, if you kind of wanna, maybe prepare for the fleet getting bigger, you can go ahead and go with the four and that'll be perfect. This will be great for some of the enclosed trailers that you have, you have a snowmobile trailer, side-by-side trailer, just put that in there, mount it up on the wall, plug her on in. So you can have all four of your machines, all charging, but if you only have two, then you can just go ahead and go with this one. So, sometimes I like to go bigger. I think that's usually better, but with this, it only is gonna pull about 60 Watts. So if you do have some solar setups and maybe you're out riding with some of your friends, the whole squad's out there, you can bring this, bring a solar panel and you can charge your machines just in case something happens. So, sometimes bigger isn't better, but with this, it's perfect for what we're doing. We have a smaller battery that is getting all the juice it needs and we have an old Jeep which I love, that's just getting the maintenance that it deserves. All in all, Genius chargers are the way to go. Trust me, this is what I use day in and day out. And I think you're gonna reap the benefits as well..