I recently bought, at a yard sale, very cheap in a ziplock bag, a motorcycle trickle charger.  I know that is what it is because it said so on the bag!  I thought I could find a manuel or something on line, but no luck.  I thought I would ask my questions here and I am sure someone can help me.

It is a transformer that plugs directly into the wall, maybe seven foot of cord with a two inch square black box and then eight inches of pigtail coming out.  It has a connector, like two barrel connectors fixed togther, one black one red.  Black is negative, red is positive (checked with my meter).  

On the front of the transformer it says the following:
MRC
MRC TECHNOLOGY INC
MODEL: 48C-2
AC ADAPTER
CLASS 2 TRANSFORMER
INPUT: 120V 60 Hz 18W
OUTPUT: 16VAC 600mA
MADE IN TAIWAN

It is also UL listed.

I checked it and it does put out the 16 volts, like it said.  I searched for MRC. etc and found nothing like this, somewhere I did find a different model number.  I contacted the company and have not heard anything back.  

I just want to make sure this is what I think it is and that it will keep my battery charged while not frying something important.

Thanks for any help
Mike

weracerc wrote on 09/28/10 at 12:38:14:


ok, so what is it good for, besides an old rc car?

...yea, as soon as I read MRC I thought, good motors but Aeroflight had better chargers Walmart has a very good charger by Schumacher for about $20. Put your  MRC charger away unless you've got an R/C motorcycle, which by the way I did have but that's another story.

The Schumacher I mentioned has the float feature and is safe for gel batteries too.  Walmart "save money, live better"

Thanks for the info guys.  I actually bought two of the chargers for $1, so it is not like I am out a whole lot.  I just wanted to make sure of what I was doing before I did it.  Which seems to be a very good thing in this case.

I have never had a problem with my battery, I ride enough in the winter (and summer) to keep the batter charged, this was just going to be another toy.  Can't have too many of them!  So, I will throw them in my five gallon bucket of transformers, that I am saving for future use, unless someone else wants them.  (I can let them go cheap, I don't have much in them!)

If it puts out 16 volts, you could make your own colloidal silver.

Good catch indeed !

You don't suppose even the Preacher does a typo ??

Charon wrote on 09/29/10 at 16:21:31:

I tried Google out.

MRC
MRC TECHNOLOGY INC
MODEL: 48C-2
AC ADAPTER
CLASS 2 TRANSFORMER
INPUT: 120V 60 Hz 18W
OUTPUT: 16VAC 600mA


Only MRC I could find was a water treatment kinda outfit. Popped 48c-2 into their search window & got Nuthin..