Tamora flat battery now I'm locked out :(

Tamora flat battery now I'm locked out :(

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Stats2909

Original Poster:

123 posts

231 months

Sunday 8th February 2015
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Hi can anyone help me get in so I can enjoy some rare sunshine please?

Thanks in advance

Stats

sascha

270 posts

249 months

Sunday 8th February 2015
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can you connect another battery to the (jump up) anderson-plug ?

Stats2909

Original Poster:

123 posts

231 months

Sunday 8th February 2015
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Only issue with that is that the jump leads are in the boot! frown

Stats2909

Original Poster:

123 posts

231 months

Sunday 8th February 2015
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Ah good old TVR in the boot now smile

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

233 months

Monday 9th February 2015
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Hope you got it fixed.

We had an issue a few weeks back and the solution was to attach the charger to the Anderson plug using crocodile clips. The ones that came with her Ctek fit nicely. So well in fact that I have given up on the idea of making a proper Anderson connector and just use those until the summer comes when I will get an install a Ctex plug direct to the battery and cable tie it alongside the Anderson plug.

K4TRV

1,819 posts

252 months

Monday 9th February 2015
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Rude-boy said:
Hope you got it fixed.

We had an issue................ snippety.........snip....... I will get an install a Ctex plug direct to the battery and cable tie it alongside the Anderson plug.
Why mount it underneath catching all the "crap" from the front wheel? I'm sure a CTex comes with a cigar lighter plug? You can use the one in front of the gear lever? Run the lead out under the door/over the window and lock up?

T

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

233 months

Monday 9th February 2015
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K4TRV said:
Rude-boy said:
Hope you got it fixed.

We had an issue................ snippety.........snip....... I will get an install a Ctex plug direct to the battery and cable tie it alongside the Anderson plug.
Why mount it underneath catching all the "crap" from the front wheel? I'm sure a CTex comes with a cigar lighter plug? You can use the one in front of the gear lever? Run the lead out under the door/over the window and lock up?

T
It does. That's what FUBAR'd the battery hehe

Thanks to the unique nature of much of TVR wiring, and modern electrics, connecting the Ctek through the cigarette lighter socket caused it to drain the battery to 'not enough to even make an LED glow dimly' level.

I could run the connector through a hole in the bulkhead into the pax footwell but don't like to mess things about any more than I have to. There is a weatherproof cover for the connector and it isn't that much of a pain to plug in there.

TBH I would just leave it as is but know if I do I will forget one day that the most forwards of the two sides to the A plug is the Positive one...

mk1fan

10,516 posts

225 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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Stats2909 said:
Hi can anyone help me get in so I can enjoy some rare sunshine please?

Thanks in advancre

Stats
Where abouts in London are you? Shame I hadn't seen the post earlier. Was at the Sausage Meet on Sunday so possibly could have popped round to show you the alternative method of entry into the Tamora.

Stats2909

Original Poster:

123 posts

231 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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In In the SE, near Bromley. I managed to get in once I"d got the boot open, and took it from there smile

Where abouts in London are you?