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Hi, everyone, Aiden here at etrailer. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the NOCO Genius Pro 50-amp smart battery charger. This is gonna convert AC power to DC power and allow you to charge a variety of different 6-volt, 12-volt, and 24-volt batteries, let's check it out. Now, for hooking up, it's really straightforward. You've got two battery clamps, red for positive and black for negative, and then those are embossed onto the clamps so you can see them really well. And then there's an inline 60-amp fuse here that's gonna protect from dangerous overloads.
Now, when you're hooking up, connect the positive to the positive terminal on your battery first. The clamps have a really good bite to them, they stay in place quite well, and the teeth get a good grip. Then do your negative. And then we can take our wall outlet or the plug, that is, and plug it into our wall outlet. The cord is a bit short, but whenever you plug it in, the battery will or the battery charger will light up.
It'll illuminate orange there briefly in the standby mode. And since we're connected, it's going to kind of auto detect what we're connected to, just a normal 12-volt battery here, and begin the charging cycle. So right now, it's flashing red on that first indicator right there. This will shortly switch over to the various stages here as it detects where it's charged, you can see it just clicked over. So essentially, this is going to flash whenever it's between a certain range, so that first light flashing means it's below 25%, the second light flashing means it's between 25 and 50%, the third light flashing means it's between 50 and 75%, and the final light flashing means it's going to be between 75 and 100%.
Now, once it is 100% charged, that will illuminate solid green, and these chasing lights here indicate that it's optimizing the battery. Once that's done, those will turn off, and then we don't have to worry about it anymore, we can leave it plugged in or unplug it at that point. Now, I mentioned this is gonna work with 12-volt, 6-volt, and 24-volt batteries, but there are different battery types it'll work with as well. The main button in the middle here, the mode button, that can cycle between the different modes, so it's just in the normal 12-volt state right now. Pressing that again will switch it to AGM, and pressing it again will switch it to lithium ion.
Now, it's important to note, with lithium ion batteries, you will need a battery management system. Now, as I cycle through these modes, if I press that button again, it'll just go all the way back to that standby mode. So that button, just pressing it will cycle through all the different 12-volt modes. If you wanna get to any of the 6-volt or the 24-volt modes, it's all gonna be the same different options there, you have to press and hold for three seconds, so that will change it over into the six, then from there, you can cycle through. And then once you get all the way through those cycles, it'll just go right back to that standby mode. So before you connect to your battery, just make sure you identify the correct battery type and select the proper mode to ensure proper charging. Now, this also has some built-in protections right here and error lights. So from left to right, we've got our over voltage error LED, that's gonna illuminate solid red when the battery voltage is above the protected voltage. The next one over is going to be our bad battery error. It's gonna also illuminate solid red when connected to a battery that won't hold a charge. Moving over from that, it's going to be our reverse polarity detector which, again, is solid red when it's detecting reverse polarity, so we need to switch our positive and negative clamps. And then over from that is the hot LED. It will illuminate solid or flash red when the internal temperatures are too high. Now, if you have a dead battery, this also has a repair function that's gonna be seen at the very bottom. To activate that, while you're in standby mode and connected to the battery, press and hold the mode button for three seconds. And it's gonna switch over and illuminate red on the 6-volt repair mode. From there, you can just press the mode button to go to the proper battery type, so we've got 12-volt repair mode. And then it'll start blinking whenever it kicks into place. So if you've got a dead battery that you need to bring back, then this can help do that. And then for batteries with a smaller capacity or in applications where you just

[@jaimk8997]

Hey mate I bought the Geniuspro 50 is it not possible to jump start a flat battery without plugging into a wall? Can we not charge up the unit itself and use as a portable jump starter?

[@etrailer]

The GeniusPro 50 doesn't have that capability. You'll need a jump starter like # 329-GB150 for that.
www.etrailer.com/Jump-Starters-and-Jumper-Cables/NOCO/329-GB150.html

[@vwgolf8storungenmalfunctio297]

I cannot see a video anywhere on the internet in which a noco genius 5 or higher, or in this case a genius pro 50, where a battery is replaced with the 12 v supply option.
Can someone explain to me how to do this, as I am going to install a new battery soon.
and a video showing this would be very useful.

[@etrailer]

I don't have a video showing that, I'll get with our video production team on that. Specifically, what are you planning on using the 12V supply for?

[@vwgolf8storungenmalfunctio297]

@@etrailer I want to replace my car battery while retaining the computer memory.