Bosch Battery Charger
Most of the time bosch batteries last anywhere between one and half years to three years. During this time depending on your usage, your battery may develop an internal short circuit that can cause damage to you changer. There are several ways to identify this problem. The most obvious one that can be observed by any one is that the charger casing gets hot and sometime gets melted due to the heat. The battery usage policy of Bosch states that you need to replace your battery if it’s older than 3 years.
Bosch battery charger is a very robust and long lasting piece of device that can carry on for very very long time. But if you are experiencing continuous charger problem with your bosch battery charger, its time you replace your battery. Bosch provides warranty for its battery, so if you are still in the warranty period, it’s better to get a new battery before you replace your bosch battery charger.
Usually, you need to return all batteries that you have tried to charge and cause the charger to get over heated or cause the battery charger casing to meal in order to get a new charger.
Bosch has wide range of battery chargers for its cordless power tools. we have listed the following models in our webiste with thier specifications:
- Bosch BC004
- Bosch BC005
- Bosch BC006
- Bosch BC016
Bosch BC004:
This battery charger is a one hour charger for 7.2V-24V operating tools. It usually used along with the following series of product models: 1644, 1645, 1659, 1660, 1661, 3860, 3870, 3924, 39601
This bosch battery charger can collect feedbacks and check whether the battery is fully charged or not and revert to trickle charge mode. Well other batteries usually continue to charge the battery at the same rate where as this charger only tops off the battery to keep it full. This smart operating condition is a cleaver way of elongating your battery life span. If you are short in cash and don’t want to go for it, you may consider it as a good investment on your battery life span.
The battery models that you can use this bosch battery charger on are: BAT011, BAT019, BAT021, BAT025, BAT030, BAT040, BAT045
Bosch BC005:
This bosch battery charger can only be used with NiCad batteries only to charge 7.2, 9.6V, 12V, and 14.4V batteries and it can charge from 1.4AH - 2.0AH Capacity. This battery charger can be used along with the following battery models: BAT045, BAT040
Bosch BC006:
BC006 is a very smart automobile power supplied charger that can sense when the battery’s charge drops and tops it off till it gets full. It’s a one hour battery charger with 7.2 to 24V range. This bosch battery charger can be used with the following batteries: BAT019, BAT021, BAT030, BAT025, BAT040, BAT045
Bosch BC016:
BC016 is an excellent bosch battery charger that can be used on a wide range of models. The charge time for this charger is between 15 to 26 minutes and its charging voltage ranges between 7.2 and 24V. The bosch battery models that you can use this charger on are the following: BAT001 thru BAT040, BAT045, BAT100. BAT120, BAT140, BAT180, BAT181, BAT240
As a final note I would like to say a little about how you can test you battery to figure out if it’s damaged or not. Basically there are two way to determine the condition of you bosch battery. According to the Instructions provided by Bosch Tool Corporation use the following two methods to test your battery: (actually you need a special testing tool to know if the battery is really damaged or not.)
Bosh Battery Testing Using Voltmeter
Please follow the following steps to know if your battery is damaged:
- First check the battery's voltage using a volt meter
- The charger the battery for about three to five minutes
- After charging for the above specified time, remove the battery from the charger and check the voltage reading of the battery. The reading has to be the max voltage of the batter otherwise it’s a sign of that battery has an internal short circuit.
Bosh Battery Testing without Using Voltmeter
- Use a 3hrs charger which can tell you whether a battery is damaged or not to charge the battery you want to test. You can use one of the following chargers for this purpose: Skil 92370, 92490, 92590 or 92990
- This test requires you to monitor the surface temperature of the charger while charging the battery. If the battery is damaged the charger starts to get over heated. If you sense that the charger is getting very hot, you should remove the battery from the charger immediately.