ALDI Auto XS Car Battery Charger

Bought 4 of these for a long holiday, left all vehicles on trickle charge . Worked a treat highly recommend Show details

why does so much electronic equipment nowadays die too soon – Bought some years back, worked fine as a trickle charger. Never got to check if it really did 4amps. Charges to around 14.3v, stops, then when battery drops to around 12.5 say, it resumes charging until 14.3, then repeats the cycle over and over. Unusual system compared to fixed trickle, but maybe better. As per previous reviews, quite annoyed to… Read more

find it didn't charge dead flat batt, and wouldn't resume charging after mains drop out. Also, push button was getting very hard to press to select voltage. However the charger has now just completely failed for no apparent reason.

The AutoXS failed after a couple of days – Rubbish -faulty -failed for no apparent reason-not serviceable-does not work at all Show details

Terrible product – I bought this product a few years ago and only recently went to use it and all that comes on the screen is OO and no other mode appears on the screen,and i have followed the instructions to the letter and nothing comes up on the screen apart from the error sign Show details

Excellent price for what this charger can do – Purchased this charger a few years ago and it has not missed a beat. I use it to maintain and charge my Parmaker Explorer golf buggy 12v Batteries. Performs great on both Deep Cycle and Gel. Automatically starts charge @ 0.8ah then changes to 5ah then returns to trickle charge. The LCD display shows charge mode displayed and A/H then returns to… Read more

default Voltage. A simple graphic display shows the charge level in the battery from start to finish. Connection clamps are strong and very capable for the task they are required, but fall short of heavy duty.

Good Charger – I have had one of these for over 8 years and it is excellent for topping up a battery and maintaining its charge. If the battery is dead flat it says the battery is defective. I had a motorcycle battery go flat when the lights were left on. The charger decided it was defective. I used an old basic charger to put some power back into the battery… Read more

for about 1/2 an hour. After that time the battery was hot but had sufficient voltage for the Auto XS charger to take over and restore it to full charge correctly. I recently bought another one which is an upgraded model and it now has a program to charge a dead flat battery. When I find a dead flat chargeable battery I'll try it and report on its effectiveness. The new model has a 3 year warranty whereas the original had a 1 year warranty.

Great charger – I have 2 Chargers been using for 2 years without any problems one for camper trailer AMG batteries and one for general use. $30 each a bargain would definitely buy again when these ever break haha Show details

Does ok, but not as good as other brand chargers – Recent purchase. Plugged it onto my battery (12.5v). Charged to 13v and showed a static display (not actively charging). Left it plugged on and day by day is going up by 0.5v per day (13.5v to 14v to 14.5v). Perhaps by the end of the long weekend my car battery will be fully charged! That is why I only gave four stars, as the Repco chargers fill the battery in two hours, not two days! Show details

New battery ruined in 12 months – Bought to keep car's new battery charged when not in use, which was a year during covid. When I checked it, charger was flashing and the battery was dead flat. Show details

Working well for me – Bought this few years ago, as I have 2 cars and to replace the smaller cheap one I got. I used it occasionally to top up the battery especially during the COVID lockdowns and WFH. If your car battery voltage drops too low, it will detect it as 6v or error, and not charge as most of these low end consumer device auto detect the voltage before… Read more

starting up. So just need to wire some batteries to bring the voltage up and show the device that the battery is a 12v to start working again. Charge/trickle it for few hours or 1 day and I will disconnect once it is full. Charge full the battery before going for long holidays (1 month) and charge again when back, I don't feel comfortable leaving it running unattended. Also used in on those 6V kiddy ride-on vehicle batteries.

Terrible – Bought to maintain a new battery on motor bike when put into storage. Fried it! Down cost of new battery. Also can't find receipt so also down of charger as well. Show details

Trickle charger only! – This is the 2021 version of this charger and I was hoping that it had been updated. The instructions say that it has a "regeneration mode" but that was not what I found. I recently tried recharging a friends completely dead, 18 month old, DIN23 2018 Camry battery with it unsuccessfully. Charger showed 7V left initially. It went into the 800mA… Read more

regeneration cycle but there was no change after 2 days connected.

I eventually put the battery on a normal (unintelligent) old school charger and it charged to full in less than 2 days.

It appears to be a good trickle charger - but that's it.

Dangerous garbage – This trickle charger fails to switch to a low current mode once the battery is charged. It continued to put 800ma into several different batteries that it had charged to variously 14.5-14.7v. The display says charged but it doesn't switch to a maintenance charge, like 120ma or less. Luckily I don't trust cheap things and had a separate meter… Read more

attached to the different batteries to check on this charger. This is a battery boiler, not a charger as stated. Dangerous garbage.

Be carefull Asia could cost you anew battery – My xs charger fried my quad Bike Battary. It didn't stop increasing voltage till it got to 15.5 volts and held the voltage at that level which damaged the battery cells causing it to fail when you need it most (on starting). If you own one keeping an eye on the float voltage. Show details

Survived a few years and did well – I found this to be a great way to maintain a battery I wasn't using. It won't charge quickly or charge a flat battery. It has a 6v and 12v setting. Unfortunately whilst trying to charge 2 linked batteries at once I killed it. I'm upgrading next time.

This works as is intended – This is a maintainer, Not a charger. Charge your battery to full, With a good CHARGER. MAY IT BE A Motorcycle, lawnmower, generator, or whatever you have. After its fully charged this little unit will maintain that charge till you need it. Great little maintainer, I use it all winter to maintain my 1954 tractor for plowing snow. 6 volt , starts every time.

Aldi Car Battery Charger - waste of time and money – I have just bought this and I have had similar problems to others. The Mode button doesn't change the function as specified in the user guide so it looks like it thinks the battery is a 6V battery not a 12V battery. Probably only good to trickle charge.

Great trickle charger does what it says on the box – This is not to charge flat batterys and is only for maintaining allready charged batterys Do not buy if you intend to charge a entirely flat battery Buy if you want to maintain your existing battery as there well worth the money

Excellent trickle charger – These are great for the job they are intended. They are trickle chargers and were not designed to charge dead flat batteries and it clearly states that in the book. If you need a full battery charger go and pay 300.00 to 500.00 dollars not a few dollars for a trickle charger. I cannot fault the XS and intend to buy 2 more to replace 2 other makes which are nowhere as good.

Doesn't seem to work – Bought this charger at ALDI in November of 2017. Had not opened the package until yesterday when my power went out. My KIPOR 3000 generator would not start due to a dead battery. After the power came back on several hours later I decided I had best charge the generator battery. Opened the package, read all the instructions, and hooked the charger… Read more

to the generator and plugged it in. Nothing would show up on the display except 4.7 volts. Could not select any mode or get anything different on the display. I left it on looked at the display an hour later and guess what? The voltage had gone DOWN to 4.1 volts. Voltage continued to go down, never increased. Poor product.

Crappiest charger I've ever seen! – Forget this rubbish! Was a complete waste of money. Only charges a battery if it isn't flat! Wish I'd kept my receipt to get a refund, as no company should make a profit from this useless product!

Don't buy it to charge a flat battery!!! – It won't charge a flat battery! So I don't see the use of it. It will only top up a battery. No no good as a car battery charger or not even for my 12 V Fish finder as it won't recharge it when battery is empty.

Poor design - Beware! – I initially left a good review, until I encountered the more dangerous flaws in the design. Having left it to trickle charge, it got stuck in an error mode which left it on full charge (rather than a fail safe disconnect). Voltage was over 15 V, battery was very hot and may not have survived. Definitely not using that again.

Aldi Auto XS smart charger (new grey one) – The GREY model that I have reviewed is a new model (not discontinued like the productreview note states) I read about the old model (black one) and last week spotted the new Aldi auto XS smart charger (grey one) in the stores. Cheap enough, has a larger LCD display and a two part cable with IP65 male female joiner and removeable alligator… Read more ·  1

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The unit works well enough, default mode is now trickle charge (a review on this site did a shout out for the change in its default setting)

So connect the battery and it is in trickle charge mode. Press the mode button and cycle through choices. I chose CAR symbol. It charged my car battery to 14.7 volts. Perfect.

I decided to take the removeable alligator clamps off and the eylets are now under the battery terminal nuts. I disconnect or reconnect the charger using the IP65 inline connector.

The only improvement I want so far is a longer cable from the charger to the IP65 connector so I can use the wall mount for the charger and run the cable to the car instead of putting the actual charger on the car.

An extension cable for the two wire with the same IP65 male/female connector would also work. (Like ctek offers) I might have to make it longer DIY style.

GOOD FOR THE PRICE OF THE THING – Mate, you must have some ordinary batteries. A battery in fair condition without any load (e.g. my bike) will hold over 11V for six months or more. And I live in a cold climate which does make a bit of difference. If you want a battery charger that doesn't do what you have spoken about go get a CTek, you'll pay at least $150 for the base model. $29 bucks so far so good.

ALDI Auto XS Car Battery Charger Fails to Perform – There are 2 distinct major problems with the design and operation of this Auto XS Car Battery Charger that is sold by ALDI Stores that actually defeat its whole purpose of being a battery charger. First major issue I found out the hard way of finding a dead flat battery in my car that I had put on trickle charge whilst I was on holidays. I… Read more

returned home and couldn’t figure out what had happened. It was charging when I left and now it wasn’t and I had a flat battery. Upon testing I subsequently found out if power is interrupted to the charger it resets to default OFF mode and stays that way until it is manually restarted by pressing the function button. One would expect that if the power goes off in the street and then comes back on the charger would simply start charging the battery again. Well NO, this isn’t how this Auto XS Battery Charger works so forget about using it as a trickle charger to maintain a battery in a car that is mostly stored in a garage not driven much, if the charger loses mains power at any stage the battery will end up going flat even though the charger is connected. Second major problem is another time the battery had almost gone flat and I then went to charge it. My multi meter showed it had only 4 volts, so I connected the ALDI Auto XS car battery charger to the car battery, then plugged it into the 240 volt supply and it said error on the digital display. I couldn’t figure this out and did this a few times and got the same result, I couldn’t select any function of the charger, it was stuck on the error screen. I then borrowed a friend’s 40 year old battery charger and connected it, the battery started charging straight away. When done I reconnected the ALDI Auto XS charger and it didn’t show the error message and it worked fine. It would appear the car battery must have a certain amount of charge / voltage in it certainly more than 4 volts or otherwise the ALDI Auto XS charger won’t work, it will only show error. The scenario would go like this, the ALDI Auto XS charger is connected to a battery in a car that does not get driven much so that the trickle charge will keep the battery in top form. Then the street supply for the house power is interrupted and upon reconnection the charger resets and does not start charging the battery again. Then when the owner finds this out and the car battery has dropped to 4 volts or less the ALDI Auto XS charger cannot be used to start charging the battery as the volts are too low and all it does is say error. Just when you need a car battery charger to start charging a low volt battery it won’t work. Sorry I ever bought this charger, it is stupid the way it is designed and pretty much useless in all aspects for the intended purpose of a car battery charger.