[dsegrest]

I bought a lawn tractor battery which works great, but I screwed up and bought a cheap charger, that doesn't indicate when the battery is charged or how much. It also does not cut off automatically. I am afraid to use it.

 

[dsegrest]

>but I screwed up and bought a cheap charger, that doesn't indicate when the battery is charged or how much. It also does not cut off automatically. I am afraid to use it.

You bought the right charger. It will actually charge a dead battery where the automatic ones just refuse to do anything for a dead battery... Charge it for an hour and start the thing. The alternator will take care of the rest. Besides a couple of hours of charging isn't going to hurt anything. It's when you go a very long time with no shutoff that it's an issue. Most of the manual ones have two settings also. Once you've charged about a hour on the high one, you can set it to the lowest one and leave it for quite a long time with no damage if you really want to. But nothing is more worthless than a charger that won't charge a battery if it's dead...

I am not using the charger in a vehicle. I am only using it for my vaporizer.