Trickle Charger Advice Please? (1 Viewer)

hilldweller

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thank you anyway, the day I get a Lidl/Aldi special buy in-stock...........

Yes ! But you might get lucky and the Aldi one ( sat in my garage ) was a bargain and has worked faultlessly on car and bike.

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For full unattended operation, the Aldi one is not for you.
When it powers up, say after a power cut, it goes to standby mode and doesn't charge until the correct mode is selected.
Go a proper ctek unit.
 

gibbon

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For full unattended operation, the Aldi one is not for you.
When it powers up, say after a power cut, it goes to standby mode and doesn't charge until the correct mode is selected.
Go a proper ctek unit.

Or Optimate(y)
 

JeanLuc

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Not the cheapest, but I bought a small CTEK charger for keeping the car battery in condition. It comes with a short easy-fit lead that can be left attached to the starter battery (ring connectors) and this has a weather-proof plug at the other end to connect to the charger's fly-lead. This has the advantage of charging the battery properly and assessing its condition, rather than simply trickling a charge.

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we leave our cars on charge with the Ctek charger..... sometimes for 5 months its so nice to get home after long trip and the car will start
 
Apr 18, 2009
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Not long enough!
No Garage for it yet, but the last solar charger we had drained the battery, binned it.

@TeeMyob I have a car stored on my dad's drive and I have a 20w solar panel sitting on the dash, it's not pointing south and it's kept the battery alive all winter, it's worth buying a descent power one, these tiddly lil things you see in car shops are not worth it, a 20w one doesn't need a charge controler(y)
 
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@TeeMyob I have a car stored on my dad's drive and I have a 20w solar panel sitting on the dash, it's not pointing south and it's kept the battery alive all winter, it's worth buying a descent power one, these tiddly lil things you see in car shops are not worth it, a 20w one doesn't need a charge controler(y)

~any links? please?
 
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Seconded on the CTEK. Got an MX5 one and it does a great job. Shame my battery was borked before I bought it though. New battery is next on the list :eek:

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Apr 18, 2009
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Not long enough!
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Been well over a year since I bought mine on eBay and I'm sure I payed about £28 and really happy with it as it's connect and forget which is what I was after, I'm in France at the mo so a bit difficult, but make sure it's Monocrystalline as the cheaper ones are poly which is not so good, you want it long and thin to sit on the dash and as long a cables as you can get ok
Try something like this but do a good search you may find it cheaper(y)
 
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Well that`s our 13th year & still loving it.
Seconded on the CTEK. Got an MX5 one and it does a great job. Shame my battery was borked before I bought it though. New battery is next on the list :eek:

Check out the prices, we have just fitted a new battery to our MX5 Mazda price was £120, actually paid £56, not bad really as the old battery was the original Panasonic fitted from new in 2000.
 
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Check out the prices, we have just fitted a new battery to our MX5 Mazda price was £120, actually paid £56, not bad really as the old battery was the original Panasonic fitted from new in 2000.
I was on about the charger by CTEK. I actually meant the ctek mxs 5.0 not the Mazda MX5 :p:whistle:

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Bruce

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LIDL NO PROBLEM AT ALL EQUALS THE MORE EXPENSIVE UNITS
 

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