Trickle Charger Question
Discussion
OK, so the beast is going to be parked up for 6 weeks whilst i'm away (Asia....not prison). I've bought a CTEK MXS 5.0 charger with all the gubbins to go with it.
Having never used one before, is it just a case of plug it into the socket in the boot and that's it, or should I be doing something else ? Just didn't know if I'm supposed to tell the car it's on charge or something ?
Having never used one before, is it just a case of plug it into the socket in the boot and that's it, or should I be doing something else ? Just didn't know if I'm supposed to tell the car it's on charge or something ?
leerandle said:
Due to the 'short' length of the cable between the cigarette lighter port and charger pack, I stick a couple of blocks of wood underneath it so the cable doesn't stretch and the charger pack 'dangle'.
I also find, I need to hold the cigarette lighter port frame whilst inserting the charger as it bends quite a lot otherwise (you can tell its not correctly inserted as the lights on the charger pack don't light up).
I've had mine for about 6 months now and its always on when the car is garaged.
I bought a 2.5m extension lead with the charger so hopefully I won't suffer with that:I also find, I need to hold the cigarette lighter port frame whilst inserting the charger as it bends quite a lot otherwise (you can tell its not correctly inserted as the lights on the charger pack don't light up).
I've had mine for about 6 months now and its always on when the car is garaged.
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V8V Pete said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one 
I drive mine too, i'm just a bit worried about it sitting in the cold for 6 weeks without even being started. It would probably be fine but for the sake of a 50 quid charger I'd rather not find out.When I bought it the Barista told me the biggest issues that they see with them (in general) are when people let the battery go flat...........if I want that sort of pain in my life I'd buy a secondhand Alfa
Last question on this boring subject I promise, but does anyone use a surge protector between the mains and the trickle charger ?
Last thing you need is power surge sending super volts into the boot socket and frying something, although I'd hope that the charger would blowup before that happened.
Might sound extreme but a colleagues house got hit by lightning about a year ago, it destroyed every single thing that was plugged in.
Last thing you need is power surge sending super volts into the boot socket and frying something, although I'd hope that the charger would blowup before that happened.
Might sound extreme but a colleagues house got hit by lightning about a year ago, it destroyed every single thing that was plugged in.
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