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Liam-O

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Can anyone point me in the direction of the charger mentioned in the below picture:

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Alternatively, if anyone has got on in the Birmingham area they wouldnt miss for a weekend, I'd be very grateful.
 
The engine has to be off for it, in ignition position 2. But I'm retrofitting xenons and needs to check voltage so wants a constant voltage I think.

Do I need some sort of special external charger?
 
Quite often, when reflashing a BIOS on a computer, or when upgrading an embedded operating system (e.g. iOS on your iPhone or iPad) it will want a known battery condition or indicated connection to a mains charger so that the power doesn't go out mid flash and "brick" your device. I'd suspect this is what is being looked for here.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe there is another battery charging port that you can connect to. See what other's opinions are as I've never tried coding but I would have thought if you have a battery charger that can do a trickle charge, just hook it up to the battery and see what happens. In Progman, can you see the indicated voltage?
 
Stuart Truman said:
Quite often, when reflashing a BIOS on a computer, or when upgrading an embedded operating system (e.g. iOS on your iPhone or iPad) it will want a known battery condition or indicated connection to a mains charger so that the power doesn't go out mid flash and "brick" your device. I'd suspect this is what is being looked for here.
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This is correct, but I'm not sure what charger will do the job. I keep my CTEK plugged in when coding but its only for short periods of time and the above message isnt displayed for key/car coding.
 
Is there not a patch for SSS for this. I installed it to get into the retrofit menu and disable the seatbelt chime, occupancy mat. If I'm wrong I'm sure somebody will correct me shortly.


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Im into the retrofit menu, will let me go pretty much the whole way through but at the last bit wants a charger :-/
 
Would it work with a set of jump leads from another car which has its engine running?
 
I saw that when the guy was coding my car.

He plugged the battery to charging thing.


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Would this do?

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductMobileDisplay?catalogId=10151&storeId=10001&productId=210983&categoryId=255205&langId=-1
 
BPM-Z4R said:
Is there not a patch for SSS for this. I installed it to get into the retrofit menu and disable the seatbelt chime, occupancy mat. If I'm wrong I'm sure somebody will correct me shortly.


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Yes there is, I also used it when disabling my seat belt chime too.
 
It turns out that for all of the retrofit menu in SSS you need a voltage of 13v. The issue that many people has is that their cable won't transfer the voltage to the software properly. So yes, there's a patch for the software that will override what SSS thinks the voltage is to 13.6v.

Took me a while to install the patch, if anyone wants to know more PM me.
 
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