Victron Energy Blue Smart IP65 12V 15A Car Battery Charger with Bluetooth

Victron's equipment is of a high quality. This is the second Blue Smart charger I've bought. I use them in automotive and aviation environments, given the quality and reliability. The ease of use and useful information available through the phone app make this the best smart charger I've used.

My off grid Solar Panel setup has two 100ah LifePO4 Batteries with built in Battery Management Systems (BMS). The BMS protects the batteries, including the battery temperature, overcharging or the voltage falling too low/undercharging (Under Voltage Protection UVP). The problem is that when the voltage falls below the trigger level, the BMS UVP steps in and cuts off the battery voltage and from then on, the battery voltage reads as zero and most Battery Chargers that are 'supposedly' suitable for LifePO4 Batteries, will not recognise this scenario/state and as such, will not charge the battery, no matter how long you leave it connected. However, when the Victron Energy Blue Smart Charger is connected to the battery, it initially carries out a test and if there is no voltage, it will automatically reset the BMS UVP and start the charging process. For this reason alone, this battery charger is worth paying more for. This Victron Charger oozes quality, it is well designed and constructed and is simple enough to use straight out of the box. You just need to select the battery type and leave it to it. Once connected it carries out a quick battery test and within a minute, it is pumping up to 15 amps into the battery (if required). The Victron App is very useful in that you can view the charging process from a short distance and alter settings, but BE AWARE that you do need to be quite close to the Charger, i.e., you can't check it from a different location. It will reach from my house to the wooden garage but no further. An Added Bonus with this Charger, is that it can also be used as an adjustable Power Supply which is really useful for my Solar Panel setup (shown above), in that I can leave the Charger connected (in Power Supply mode) to my batteries whilst being plugged into the Grid Mains, and if the Batteries voltage drops below a pre-set voltage, say 12.90 volts, the Victron will step in and start supplying power but will then stop supplying once the batteries voltage is above 12.90 volts. To conclude, no major issues to date but I will edit this review if necessary. It works really well and I have no hesitation in Highly Recommending this upmarket charger.

Like everything Victron that I have bought it works perfectly without issues. It charges without overcharging the battery, can monitor within its blutooth range. And runs cool to the touch. It maintains battery voltage below the gassing rate after charging which is essentially as most batteries can’t be topped up with distilled water.

Great product, does just what’s required. The reconditioning feature, lifepo4 and Bluetooth make it very useful

good quality and works really well

A solid charger with no moving parts. I purchased this with the intent of fitting it permanently into my caravan, however I think I will just fit the connector with the circular connectors to a suitable terminal near the battery so I can easily remove the charger for other purposes. (I'm not convinced the caravan charger is doing the AGM battery any favours) It almost thinks for itself so can be left to do its own thing and can be left permanently connected if required. What's more I can monitor the battery state via Bluetooth. I have several chargers but I don't have total confidence in any of them, this one I feel I can rely on to do what it is supposed to do without any intervention. Hopefully I'm right.

You can’t really go wrong with Victron, and this charger performs brilliantly. I love being able to check on the status from inside the house too, using the app. Fast enough when charging at full power, but also preserves the battery by using a Storage mode when Float has been achieved for a certain amount of time, which keeps the battery at a lower voltage than float, for longevity. It’s also amazingly customisable, if you want to tweak the settings for a specific use case… but most will not need to.

Purchased what i thought was a good quality charger with app control/monitoring, and at first it turned out to be an ideal choice. Knowing that the name was synonymous in the power & battery charging systems i expected the best, but obviously this was not the case. The first and only use was to monitor and maintain the battery on my car, as being a sports cabriolet that to be honest i only use during spring to autumn as its no use in bad wintery weather, so it was connected to my blue smart 12v/15a charger i n my garage, and initially it worked fine allowing me to monitor the charging cycles/recovery & maintenance via the app, and with the fantastic claims of reliability/waterproof CE IP65, ZERO MAINTENACE, i left it connected through the winter months, but when i brought the car out of hibernation the charger was not working (mains fuse and power supply okay), battery was flat, and luckily with the battery being a new 2024 YAUSA branded it was recovered using my old boost starter charger unit. Being that I had the 5 year guarantee as support I tried to contact VICTRON but the UK suppler was not so easy to locate, and on advice of contacting the uk rep, i tried to get support but he was no help,so i managed to locate and access the international customer support portal, placed a support ticket with them requesting replacement/repair but have not even had an acknowledgement email(zero support) . Coming back to AMAZON for help, & even though the return window had well passed they were very supportive and actioned a return/full refund for me and they handle the product return on my behalf, so at least all was not lost as this item is not the cheapest, and certainly in my experience certainly not the best.

It comes with a UK plug and not the standard European plug. That came as a surprise and it should have been mentioned; if it was I didn't see it. Anyway, I bought an adapter from UK to EU and that did the trick. The IP65 is very sturdy and I'm sure that it will function properly when I need it. However, at this time my problem now is getting the App on my Samsung to communicate with the IP65 which it doesn't recognize. I suppose my old phone and myself are part of the problem but it is disappointing not to have things fall smoothly into place without having to struggle to get a proper connection. In time I'm sure that it'll work out - otherwise I'll have to write another review.

Attention, bien que ça ne soit pas indiqué à aucun endroit dans la description, le produit livré est la version avec la prise UK! Aucun problème si vous avez un adaptateur, mais dans le cas contraire, il faudra vous en procurer un. Ca n'est pas normal que ça ne soit pas précisé dans le descriptif du produit.