Are all car battery chargers pretty much the same?

WLM21

Ctek battery chargers are very good, here is a link to one .. I use one on my campervan

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ctek-CTE-XS3600-Battery-Charger-Functional/dp/B000RHWCNY

gabitzul

britishboy wrote: »

Andy

Scrap post #79 mate, put charger on her today after an hr run yesterday and the chargers now letting me cycle through the modes, I guess the battery was so flat yesterday morning it wasn't registering

Will leave her on charge til tomorrow morning, should this be long enough guys to fully charge her up? Am reading up on possible battery drain issues on a RR forum

You will know once the battery is fully charged as the FULL light on the charger will become lit (I have the LIDL charger). I would say definitely leave it in place until fully charged.

longwalks1

gabitzul wrote: »

You will know once the battery is fully charged as the FULL light on the charger will become lit (I have the LIDL charger). I would say definitely leave it in place until fully charged.

Cheers gab
Have disconnected it for the night as I live in flats and have the charger on the car via a 20m extension lead (not ideal i know:o)

Reading the Lidl manual my battery is charged up to between 7.5 and 10.5V because the small LED is lit by the picture of a battery with lightening strike through it. Will stick it back on charge tomorrow and hopefully it'll switch to normal charging mode (I been using mode 4 (the snowflake) on our charger, as its cold out) once its above 10.5v

So far im very impressed with the charger (now I got enough in the battery for it to register it)

andy2004

sorry for not getting back sooner to you britishboy, when i said dead i'm guessing it still had a little bit of charge left in it, but not enough to start the car. I dont have a meter to tell.
I remember connecting the charger to it and also it wouldnt let me choose the settings either, so i left it connected and when the light lit up and i was able to select the setting i wanted i just left it on charge. Think it took about 10minutes.
but i still use the battery in the car. Due to myself not using the car to travel any real distance my battery tends to run out of power after about 1 month, so i swap and recharge.

I like the charger and I hope you do too. I dont work for the company but I do like things that work for a cheap price, I've been told i'm frugal. dont like that term, prefer tight a$$