Going on holiday......
Discussion
I'm going away for 3 weeks in November, and wondered what precautions I should take with the Chim. It will be tucked up in the garage, but should I get a battery conditioner/trickle charger? If so, which is easiest to install and use? I have a power socket in the garage.
Would it be advisable to get my brother to drive it once or week, or is this not necessary?
Would it be advisable to get my brother to drive it once or week, or is this not necessary?
Accumate is the obvious answer if your worried, and at £50 it's not going to break the bank 
Fitting is relatively straight forward, I've hard wired the eyelet ends to the battery, they needed enlargeing a little but it's not to hard, the plug then sits in the side of the passenger footwell, the main unit then plugs into this with the other end plugged into the wall
Been using mine for about 10 months now and haven't had a single problem with it
Fitting is relatively straight forward, I've hard wired the eyelet ends to the battery, they needed enlargeing a little but it's not to hard, the plug then sits in the side of the passenger footwell, the main unit then plugs into this with the other end plugged into the wall
Been using mine for about 10 months now and haven't had a single problem with it
I use a Draper Battery-Master from Halfauds - £25. Does the job if ever I leave it for more than two weeks. Got a lighter plug too and the lead is easily long enough to reach the wall socket. Note this is a trickle charger (around 300mA) but has been fine on my Tivs for the past 4 yrs.
Gavstar said:
Are the Leven ones good/value for money/no different to any others?
The Leven one is an Accumate and they are about right price wise, they can be found a little cheaper but if you can find one in your local battery specalist saving the postage costs will be your biggest saving
Gavstar said:
Is there a difference between a trickle charger and a conditioner?
Are the Leven ones good/value for money/no different to any others?
"Conditioner" - well, Optimate and Accumate (plus some others) monitor the state of your battery and adjust the charge. So (theoretically) once it's full of volts it stops charging.
IMHO it's all bollix and they do the same job.
Has anyone done an external connector?
If the battery is really flat, a quick plug-in on the outside has got to be easier than emergency break-in.
My accumate has a rubber covered connector which could go outside, but it's only short.
I have a feeling Leven do something (but can't be bothered to look at the mo!)
If the battery is really flat, a quick plug-in on the outside has got to be easier than emergency break-in.
My accumate has a rubber covered connector which could go outside, but it's only short.
I have a feeling Leven do something (but can't be bothered to look at the mo!)
S3 Kieran said:
Has anyone done an external connector?
If the battery is really flat, a quick plug-in on the outside has got to be easier than emergency break-in.
My accumate has a rubber covered connector which could go outside, but it's only short.
You could connect the standard connector to the battery, then instead of passing the rubber multiplug end into the passenger footwell, drill a hole in the floor, pass the connecter through it, rubber grommet in the hole to protect the wire and stop road crap coming back up through the holethen tie wrap the end in place, then you could plug it in without having to open the door
The only thing I've seen from Leven is the under bonnet jump lead connector, which would still require you to break in (although on a convertable TVR it's not exactly hard
) to open the bonnet 
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