Best battery charger

farmbrew

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Arable Farmer
Location
North Notts
Get a Halfords trade card, gives really good discount on various stuff. Ring charger/starter down from £110 to £60. If you mean trickle charger then yes I'd second the Ctek vote.
 

FG.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Wiltshire
I've a few small ctek chargers, that will eventually charge anything.
So I thought, let's get a bigger clever charger........why did I try a Clarke 25amp 12/24v clever charger??
Answer:- I don't know. It's not clever, in that if the battery is too low, it won't charge it.
So it's going back.
 

wr.

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Breconshire
What are Maypole like? I see they are British made although I suspect some of the components are from the land of the Wuhan flu.
 

TheTallGuy

Member
Location
Cambridgeshire
I'm a bit disenchanted with my Ctek, it keeps saying that a couple of batteries are knackered, but they're fine when charged on an old buzz box charger and I'm sure it has killed a couple of other small batteries that had been working fine.
 
I'm a bit disenchanted with my Ctek, it keeps saying that a couple of batteries are knackered, but they're fine when charged on an old buzz box charger and I'm sure it has killed a couple of other small batteries that had been working fine.

CTEK won't try to charge a battery it senses a fault in. They are designed to be left attached to cars etc forever so I can't see it would kill a battery? Once it reaches full charge it sits and only intermittently charges?
 

Lincsman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Ctek often wont start charging a dead battery... really dead... so I have a 1950.s pre transistor direct current to start the charge.. its only 3 amp but will put some life back.
 

TheTallGuy

Member
Location
Cambridgeshire
CTEK won't try to charge a battery it senses a fault in. They are designed to be left attached to cars etc forever so I can't see it would kill a battery? Once it reaches full charge it sits and only intermittently charges?
When it plays up it usually gets half way through charging & then throws a fault, yet the old buzz box charges them fine & they hold up as well as any other battery the same size. The batteries that it appears to have killed went from working reasonably well to being virtually useless in a single charge cycle.
 
When it plays up it usually gets half way through charging & then throws a fault, yet the old buzz box charges them fine & they hold up as well as any other battery the same size. The batteries that it appears to have killed went from working reasonably well to being virtually useless in a single charge cycle.

Weird. I've had my CTEK years and hooked it to all sorts. It's only a modest sized one though. I think for you guys the NOCO is the one to go for.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Ctek often wont start charging a dead battery... really dead... so I have a 1950.s pre transistor direct current to start the charge.. its only 3 amp but will put some life back.

Someone said on here recently that putting it on in Supply mode for a while to give it some power, then swapping to Charge works to get around that problem.
 

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