Battery Conditioner

[razorman]

I am worried about the battery on my Chim with the current lack of use. A friend who used to have a griff has given me a battery conditioner that you plug into the cigarette lighter, but he did not have the operating instructions. It has lots of lights on the front panel, but I don't know what they mean.
It is a CSI Airflow model number 5016-01.
I have tried searching the internet to find the manufaturer to see if I could download the instructions but I can't find them. (they are a Swiss company)
Anyone know anything about these and where I may be able to get some operating instructions from?

[billynomates]

razorman said:

I am worried about the battery on my Chim with the current lack of use. A friend who used to have a griff has given me a battery conditioner that you plug into the cigarette lighter, but he did not have the operating instructions. It has lots of lights on the front panel, but I don't know what they mean. It is a CSI Airflow model number 5016-01. I have tried searching the internet to find the manufaturer to see if I could download the instructions but I can't find them. (they are a Swiss company) Anyone know anything about these and where I may be able to get some operating instructions from?

How about this.

www.leventechnology.co.uk/index.htm

[razorman]

billynomates said:

[How about this. www.leventechnology.co.uk/index.htm

Leven only sell Acumate items and so buying one just means paying £50 or so for something I have already got, but don't have the instructions for, which seems a bit of a waste.

[poorpeet]

Most thing like this are very user friendly. Yuo just plug it in. The lights generaly just tell you what it's doing or what state it thinks the battery is in.
I think its safe to just plug it in & see what it does.

[CraigAlsop]

razorman said:

It has lots of lights on the front panel, but I don't know what they mean. It is a CSI Airflow model number 5016-01.

I have one of these - if you respond to the email I'm about to send you, I shall scan in the instructions & email it to you

[razorman]

CraigAlsop said:

[I have one of these - if you respond to the email I'm about to send you, I shall scan in the instructions & email it to you

Thanks a lot, I have responded ......PistonHeads strikes again......so glad I joined.

[Andrewtrevormoore]

I don't suppose anyone still has the instructions for a csi airflow battery conditioner please??

[sparkythecat]

Crikey, A 12 year old thread crawls from the grave....

[TR4man]

Andrewtrevormoore said:

I don't suppose anyone still has the instructions for a csi airflow battery conditioner please??

Yes.

Plug one end into the mains socket, the other into the cigarette lighter socket.

Turn on and wait.

Green light shows when charged.

[737 FLF]

http://www.airflow-uk.co.uk/Battery-Conditioner.ht...

HTH

[mrs zebra]

CraigAlsop said:

I have one of these - if you respond to the email I'm about to send you, I shall scan in the instructions & email it to you

I have lost my manual for the CSI Airflow Battery Conditioner. The yellow power light is on but the green compensating light hasn't come on the last couple of times I have connected it up. Is it working? When I turn it off at the mains, the car is charged to 12.0V

[Scrump]

mrs zebra said:

I have lost my manual for the CSI Airflow Battery Conditioner. The yellow power light is on but the green compensating light hasn't come on the last couple of times I have connected it up. Is it working? When I turn it off at the mains, the car is charged to 12.0V

12.0v is not fully charged. Sounds like your battery conditioner is not working or you are not leaving it connected for long enough.

[JamsD]

I just bought one of these multi battery chargers as I have a couple of things not being used over the winter months

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FYS6CL8/ref...

[blitzracing]

Scrump said:

12.0v is not fully charged. Sounds like your battery conditioner is not working or you are not leaving it connected for long enough.

That will depend on what part of the conditioning cycle the charger is in as it only charges to peak voltage for a very short time period before it let's the battery discharge to a certain voltage before it starts charging again. Admittedly 12v is very much the low end of things with 14v being about the preak. I would think if you disconnect and reconnect it would go to peak charge on the first cycle over a few hours.

[dhutch]

JamsD said:

I just bought one of these multi battery chargers as I have a couple of things not being used over the winter months

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FYS6CL8/ref...

The NoCo stuff (also in Halfords) seems ok.

I have a CTek for the Kitcar, another common brand, but a NoCo for the vintage car as the CTek doesnt do 6v.

[dhutch]

The chargers I have are the 'NOCO GENIUS5 5' and the 'CTEK MXS 5.0' and I am very happy with both.

CTEK is very nice and has slightly more status lights and a very easy mode button, and I bought the optional rubber bumper case which is a nice touch. I also have the permanently attached flying lead which have a red/amber/green status indicator on it which is nice if a bit mean on cable length!

NoCo is also a nice unit, does for 6v batteries which I needed, as well as Lithium. Does slightly complicate the mode buttons due to the increased modes, but once it is in the right mode I just leave it at that. Noco for the 6v car Ctek for the 12v car with ctek plug!

I both cases I bought the 5A rather than the smaller model because it gets charge times to around 12h (with just a few giving enough to get a start) where 1 or 2A while fine for maintenance, would take over 24h to bring it up from flat if I forgot to attach it or the like. 10A would also be nice, but nearly doubles the cost again!