Ctek 3.6 Charger

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bmrich15

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Afternoon all,

Can someone tell me if the above can be installed permeanant in my boot.......as I don't have a garage it would need to be powered through the Cigarette socket.......but is it permanent live.........and would I need anything else apart from the
Cigarette lighter adapter?

The car is not going to be used over the winter!

My car is a 2004 2.5 Roadster!

Thanks
 
If your after installing it in the boot then just hook it right up to the battery. Either way you need some way of getting a mains feed to it. It comes with a quick release cable for battery connection.
 
i think you would easily be able to trap the mains cable carefully in the boot rubber without any problem and feed it into the house some how.
 
I have a CTEK comfort indicator permanantly connected to the battery in the boot and threaded through so it's visible above the carpet, it has colour-coded (red/amber/green) LEDs which flash about once per second to show you the state of the battery and lets you know if it could do with charging - the comfort indicator lead isn't essential as the charger comes with a similar lead with eyelets to connect to the battery at one end and the in-line plug for the charger at the other, just no LEDs.

When the car is on charge in the garage, the ctek charger sits in the boot and plugs into the comfort indicator, or normal lead, and the mains lead will loop over the boot sill enough for the boot to be shut - I don't worry about the boot not being latched as it's in the garage, but a thinner mains cable taken out of the corner should allow it to be locked. I wrap an old towel around the mains lead to avoid it rubbing on the rear bumper paintwork

CTEK_1.jpg


This it it in use to charge the battery - forgive the old rubber mats I use to stop things sliding around in the boot
CTEK_2.jpg


And this is how the car is left on long-term maintenance charge over the winter - I've lifted the cover back so you can see properly
CTEK_3.jpg
 
PerryGunn said:
I have a CTEK comfort indicator permanantly connected to the battery in the boot and threaded through so it's visible above the carpet, it has colour-coded (red/amber/green) LEDs which flash about once per second to show you the state of the battery and lets you know if it could do with charging - the comfort indicator lead isn't essential as the charger comes with a similar lead with eyelets to connect to the battery at one end and the in-line plug for the charger at the other, just no LEDs.

When the car is on charge in the garage, the ctek charger sits in the boot and plugs into the comfort indicator, or normal lead, and the mains lead will loop over the boot sill enough for the boot to be shut - I don't worry about the boot not being latched as it's in the garage, but a thinner mains cable taken out of the corner should allow it to be locked. I wrap an old towel around the mains lead to avoid it rubbing on the rear bumper paintwork

CTEK_1.jpg


This it it in use to charge the battery - forgive the old rubber mats I use to stop things sliding around in the boot
CTEK_2.jpg


And this is how the car is left on long-term maintenance charge over the winter - I've lifted the cover back so you can see properly
CTEK_3.jpg
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I have no garage though!
 
You're going to have to get power to the car somehow - if you use a flat mains cable with a socket on the end, the boot should shut and lock
 
Like PerryGunn, I too have a ctek charger wired into my car (mxs 5.0).

Highly recommended over other chargers, I have the normal disconnect charger wired in mine as the battery gets a charge once a week.

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IMG_7690 by NeilllP, on Flickr
 
i have mine in the boot without a problem, the car is outside and i have never had a problem leaving the mains cable connected (trapped by boot rubber seal)
 
Taz said:
i have mine in the boot without a problem, the car is outside and i have never had a problem leaving the mains cable connected (trapped by boot rubber seal)
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That's what I thought, it's just a matter of using a thin enough mains cable - the chargers are double insulated and current draw (from the mains) won't be an issue so you could even use something like lighting flex with a 3A plug as long as you can protect it from mechanical damage where it's run from the house to the car
 
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