What is this type of connector called?
What is this type of connector called?
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silverfoxcc

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8,078 posts

166 months

Thursday 3rd April 2025
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I have been through ebay etc and cannot see anything like it Surely it must have a name type

TIA

Blib

47,014 posts

218 months

Thursday 3rd April 2025
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This....?

Grumbly

326 posts

169 months

Thursday 3rd April 2025
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SAE connectors

S1MMA

2,447 posts

240 months

Thursday 3rd April 2025
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is it off an optimate battery charger?

https://www.optimate.co.uk/connectors/

donkmeister

11,368 posts

121 months

Thursday 3rd April 2025
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Grumbly said:
SAE connectors
This.

OP, you can get loads of different SAE adaptors, what is it you want to do?

I've seen them mounted to the outside of vehicles so you can plug in to a tender when the car is parked up.

silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

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166 months

Friday 4th April 2025
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Both cars have the battery at the rear, and i find it a lot easier having these pemanantly wjred up to the battery with the plug just protrudung from the trim, than unloading stuff if i need to use the charger. esp as i reverse into the garage and space is a premium..

Thanks to all who have narrowed the search for me

SystemOfAFrown

106 posts

41 months

Friday 4th April 2025
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silverfoxcc said:
Both cars have the battery at the rear, and i find it a lot easier having these pemanantly wjred up to the battery with the plug just protrudung from the trim, than unloading stuff if i need to use the charger. esp as i reverse into the garage and space is a premium..

Thanks to all who have narrowed the search for me
Ensure that the wire from connector to battery is fused, otherwise you'll be in for a bad time if it shorts.

Jakg

3,917 posts

189 months

Sunday 6th April 2025
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SystemOfAFrown said:
Ensure that the wire from connector to battery is fused, otherwise you'll be in for a bad time if it shorts.
Good suggestion, bizarrely the CTEK comfort connectors aren't (at least not the cheap ones).

TwinKam

3,447 posts

116 months

Sunday 6th April 2025
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If you choose the correct lead of the pair to fit to the battery, ie with the permanently live lead from the battery's positive terminal ending in the shrouded female socket (rather than the exposed male spigot), you will minimise the risk of it shorting.