Best battery charger
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Spanner_Man
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Anything from GYS
- 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.
- Location
- East Sussex
Look for a noco g26000. An out of date model now but some Halfords still have them in store for £150 which is very cheap for a smart 26amp charger with a 5 minute 30amp boost function to get something going.
- 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.
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.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
CTEK or NOCO.
- 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.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Optimate or CTEK.
I do like the Optimate as they are often successful at recovering a totally drained and dead battery. Good if getting an old battery from the local outlet, and using them on fencers.
I do like the Optimate as they are often successful at recovering a totally drained and dead battery. Good if getting an old battery from the local outlet, and using them on fencers.
- Location
- East yorks
I have a Lidl, selection of ctek and some noco. Only had a ctek die on a long running battery power setup.
David the spud man
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Noco g26000 great charger
quavers
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
got a noco here after the ctek gave up not long after the warranty , noco has a 5 year warranty good bit cheaper than the ctek at the time on the black friday deals
ollie989898
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NOCO. CTEK is for garage queen Ferraris, not a farmer tool. NOCO should have a permanent advert on TFF they come up so much.
TheTallGuy
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- 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.
ollie989898
Member
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?
- 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
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
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.
ollie989898
Member
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
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
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.