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All I can say is the whole battery issue has been somewhat of a non-issue for me. Been car charging for over a month now and I tried my new solar charger this morning. Worked like a champ on a somewhat overcast day, bring close to dead batteries to full charge in less than 3 hours. I am very pleased with that, looks like I have my super remote location solution.

Hello, I bought a SDC 2300 in the past couple of weeks. It came with a Vanson Model V-9688 Super Universal LCD Charger, reading right off the package. It only has a 110 volt wall plug, and no other means of charging batteries, as we have grown accustomed to, with our Minelab detectors. Oddly enough, there are Vanson chargers available with both 110 and 12 volt charging capabilities. There could be some reason electronically why the 12 v. capability was not included. A person with knowledge of both the Minelab SDC 2300 electronic demands, as well as the capabilities of a 12 volt automotive circuit, to recharge four "c" cell batteries with this charger, at one time, could probably explain this better than a wood butcher could... As an aside, the "c" cell batteries that come with the detector do not carry a full charge when packaged, and some people are using the batteries without charging them, and while they WILL work for a time, it won't be the full amount of time you might have hoped for. If you charge them WITHOUT discharging them, when you do charge them, you will not have a full charge at the end of the charge cycle. At least that is what I have read somewhere... Kind of weird, huh? We will muddle our way through this, until and IF Minelab sheds some needed advice on these questions that are being put forth. There is some discussion on Finders Forum about the need of an after market headphone pigtail, so a person can use your own headphones rather than the stock UR 30 headphones that come with the detector, with the odd locking ball cable end, which could very well go south on you at the worst time, and leave you with NO option, but your external speaker, which also is a topic of discussion elsewhere... Have a great day! Gary