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Cruising Cruze


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I've Got a 80 watt solar portable panel

beside this one what is the best small charger to use when it home 

an Ctek or an Projecta Pro-Charge Battery Charger 12V 2-8Amp

 

thank you allready for your replys

John



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I recently bought a Ctek 15 amp charger, made in Sweden and seem to do a very good job .

Cant comment on the Pro charge, have never used one, though I notice its only rated at 8 amps.

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Cruising Cruze wrote:

I've Got a 80 watt solar portable panel

beside this one what is the best small charger to use when it home 

an Ctek or an Projecta Pro-Charge Battery Charger 12V 2-8Amp

 

thank you allready for your replys

John

 Stay away from projecta, Period.



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Ctek, no questions asked!

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They are an 8-step charger. So there is a lot of control across multiple stages.

http://www.ctek.com/au/en/chargers/MXS%2010 is a nice unit

http://www.ctek.com/au/en/Product/Category?category=tank

Either of these units will work great for you.....



-- Edited by SaltyDog on Saturday 9th of March 2013 06:35:35 AM

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Cruising Cruze wrote:

Thank you all for that

Looking for an Ctek now

and @ Santa I tough it was better to charge slower than the fastway maybe I'm wrong

John

Morning John, as Salty Dog has commented, it seems these latest chargers control the charge rate constantly, they don't simply run flat out until they destroy the battery.

When my Ctek reaches full charge it drops the rate to a maintainance trickle, and I believe, can be left connected full time if needs be.

I bought the MXS15, seemed to be a good mid range unit. http://www.ctek.com/au/en/chargers/MXS%2015

http://www.ctek.com/au/en/chargers/MXS%2010

Salty Dog, seems your second link was to a 24volt charger.



-- Edited by Santa on Saturday 9th of March 2013 10:03:27 AM

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Cruising Cruze wrote:

Thanks Santa & Salty Dog for your help

I've seen an MXS15 for $249 is that ok


John

Sounds about the mark John, I paid $250 including postage from this Ebay seller

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321023784549 they were good to deal with and shipped promptly.



-- Edited by Santa on Saturday 9th of March 2013 01:07:41 PM

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Cruising Cruize, for the purpose you have mentioned, a 5 would be more than enough and they are only $90 AUD

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CTEK-MXS-5-0-BATTERY-CHARGER-12-VOLT-12V-5A-5-AMP-REPLACES-XS4003-DEEP-CYCLE-AGM-/300824532033?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D6111500046838041147%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D321023784549%26#ht_3326wt_1220

 

 

Or even the trickle charger for $59

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CTEK-XS0-8-TRICKLE-BATTERY-CHARGER-12V-CAR-MOTOR-BIKE-ATV-REPLACES-XS800-COMFORT-/400347149377?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555001%26algo%3DPW.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29%26meid%3D6111568268832992984%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D1013%26rk%3D10%26sd%3D290821746802%26#ht_3070wt_1220

 

But for a more versitle unit, the 10 or 15 will be better.....

Buy right and one cry once ;)

-- Edited by SaltyDog on Saturday 9th of March 2013 01:48:06 PM



-- Edited by SaltyDog on Saturday 9th of March 2013 01:50:08 PM

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Thank you all for that

Looking for an Ctek now

and @ Santa I tough it was better to charge slower than the fastway maybe I'm wrong

John

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Thanks Santa & Salty Dog for your help

I've seen an MXS15 for $249 is that ok


John


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Salty Dog, seems your second link was to a 24volt charger.

 

Bahahah, i just checked, it wasn't even the correct link.... Doh :)

 

The 7 or 10 unit are great, i used one of the older 7000 units this week, its now called a 7. 

My friend tells me he bought the 7000 off ebay for $78... personally i can not find them for under $250



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will order an CTEK-MXS-10


"Ctek's MXS10 is a fully automatic 8-step battery charger that delivers 10A to 12V batteries from 20200Ah and is suitable for maintenance charging up to 300Ah. "

thats plenty my battery is only 100ah

thanks a lot for the support gentleman
regards John

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Santa,

Don't want to rain on your parade but, Ctek are "designed/engineered" in Sweden, made in China.

Cheers

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PS I have two, a 3.6A & 15A



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Hurls wrote:

Santa,

Don't want to rain on your parade but, Ctek are "designed/engineered" in Sweden, made in China.

Cheers

Hurls

PS I have two, a 3.6A & 15A

 Just went out and checked, your absolutely right, hang about while I put my umbrella up.

Go's to show you should always read the fine print.ashamed



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Is there anything that's not made in China.

Walmart commissioned the largest container ship ever made. It sails empty from the US back to China !!!

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Be Warned, i just purchased a new CTEK MXS 5.0 and it destroyed a battery in 1 night!
A smaller 10Ah Motorbike battery, but still, it has a setting for the Motorbike size Batteries.

And a good AGM Battery that was working fine yesterday morning and now destroyed and only reads 10.23volts after having the CTEK connected to it for 24 hours.

There are also more stories like this on the net tool

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Was it genuin ? So many copies out there on everything ..

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