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My battery charger seems to have suddenly passed on. I had it on my Caravan battery, & I think it was still charging when I took it off, but today it doesn't do anything. I have had it since college days, over 40 years ago. It's just a small 3 amp charger, but I like to charge batteries slowly, instead of zapping them with rapid charging. That was also long enough ago that it had both 6 & 12 volt circuits. I wasn't even sure how easy it would be to find one with 6 volts in it now, but I see in an initial search that they DO still make them. But with the markets so flooded with junk from you-know-where, just wondering if you all haw suggestions of a good brand. (This one wasn't even a very expensive one - I was a poor college kid, and so I went to K-Mart. I had left my car up in Minnesota over Christmas break, because I had a chance to ride back home to Oklahoma & back north with someone else. When I went to pick up my car at a friend's house, the battery had frozen, and it was clear dead. I had State Farm road insurance at the time, so we pushed it out onto the street where a wrecker could get to it, and he gave me a jump. Drove to K-Mart & bought the battery charger & and a 50' extension cord. But I brought the battery into my dorm room to thaw - took almost a week before it warmed up. It took a charge OK, but I found out later that one cell was completely dead.) Oh, and has anyone tried to repair one? What would be the most likely problem? (Both 6 & 12 volt circuits are dead.)