Hello,

First,, I am aware that Pro Mariner makes the XPS charger.  I have now gone through 2 of the XPS 5/5/5 chargers in 7 months with very light use.  Bass Pro has agreed to replace it with a Pro Mariner Pro Sport 20 Plus charger.

They appear to be very similar chargers except the Pro Mariner has a total output of 20 amps; vs 15 for the XPS.

My question is, do you think there is any quality difference between the units?  The manager at BPS said the internal hardware is better on the Pro Mariner, but not sure if that is true.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

thanks

Larry

I've heard plenty of bad reports on both of these brands of chargers and few good.  

JMO.  In 30 + years of bass fishing I've owned a total of 3 portable, 10amp portable battery chargers.  In all those years I only had one fail.  One got smashed and the other has been serving me for the last 10 years.  They all got rained on at one time or the other, charging gauge cover cracked, rusted internally but only one failed.  I seriously doubt I'd have had anywhere near that good of luck with an ob battery charger.

Considering the price, I have never seen a reason to ever go with OB chargers due to the convenience aspect of them.  They fail too often considering the price but if I was going to buy one I understand the Guest chargers hold up the best.  A little pricier than most but they fail less often.

I've never used the BPS version because I don't run those small amp chargers.  I've been running Pro Mariner chargers for a bunch of years and on my sixth one (not from failures but from letting them go in boats I got rid off).  I've used their Pro Tourny 300's since they came out and I've had one that failed a few years back.  They had me a new one at my door the next day.

I still feel the charging technology in the PM chargers is far superior  to any compairable charger and is the only charger I would think of using.

Granted when they started having them made in China about 10 years ago, I was not a happy camper and the next charger I bought after that was a Dual Pro.  Four months later it failed and I gave their replacement to my brother and bought my first Chinese made PM and have had several since.  It was my third Chinese made PM PT 300 that failed about two years ago but still using the replacement and it has been flawless.

They also probably put a little more quality into their top of the line models with their brand name on them over what BPS has them make with the BPS logo on them