Battery Charger

[LawrieS]

Evening all,

Needed to move the car and my battery has gone flat

Hopefully just due to lack of use due to recent house move. Can anyone recommend a decent charger? Will one of the 'conditioning' types provide sufficient charge from flat? I could do with getting it out on Saturday and I don't have time to get to a shop before then so it will need to be sourced online.

Thanks
Lawrie

[GreenV8S]

The little conditioning type chargers are usually designed to deliver a small current to maintain the battery and are not good fast chargers, even if they claim a 'fast charge' capability on the box. If you want to charge the battery up from flat I suggest you should be looking for a fast charger designed for that. Note that flattening the battery will certainly have reduced its capacity and might have caused a cell to short out; check the voltage after a few minutes on charge, and if it has not come up past 12V you probably have a dead cell.

[phillpot]

Jump start off your DD?

Halfords open till late...... clicky


Or one of those boost pack things?

Maplin open till late...... clicky again

Edited by phillpot on Wednesday 4th October 20:37

[LawrieS]

Thanks both, it’s the first time it’s gone flat in all the time I’ve had the car, the battery must be 8+ years old so time for a new one?

A friend has a fast charger I can borrow which should get me out of the garage.

So, where to buy a new battery and which condioner to use going forward

[RayTVR]

I have a C-tech trickle charger and that's worked fine for the last five years and seems to be well recommended

[wseed]

I got to test a cheap Chinese lipo jump starter at the weekend and I can gladly say that the battery that's about the size of a couple of days packets was able to start the Chim easily. I'm just glad I'd left it in the car and not the boot as the doors and boot wouldn't open. It as more than a pain to conn CT in the footwell however and I had to push the car out if the garage in order to connect.