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

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8,115 posts

168 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

47,198 posts

220 months

Thursday 3rd April 2025
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This....?

Grumbly

327 posts

171 months

Thursday 3rd April 2025
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SAE connectors

S1MMA

2,449 posts

242 months

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

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

donkmeister

11,705 posts

123 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:

8,115 posts

168 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..

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SystemOfAFrown

106 posts

43 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..

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Ensure that the wire from connector to battery is fused, otherwise you'll be in for a bad time if it shorts.

Jakg

3,953 posts

191 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

3,486 posts

118 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.