Oaktree
Super Member
All but one of my chargers are old school...a 12V transformer, a bridge rectifier and maybe a pilot light or ammeter. There may be a tiny bit of back leakage thru the diodes, but nothing that's ever been an issue.Don't know about your old one. But I have 3 chargers and multiple battery maintainers and all of them have circuitry to not allow reverse flow. We have a lot of power outages and internet outages around here also!
These are all essentially trickle chargers, none will put out more than a couple amps. To prevent overcharging when being used as a maintainer I just put 'em on a timer, power on only 3-4 hr/day.
I have a lithium jump pack for when I need that functionality.