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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2664   
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I have a CTEK charger I bought (from Brendan) a couple of years ago. I also have a CTEK Comfort Indicator which connects permanently to the battery, and the female socket looks like this:
 Click image to enlarge Now I want to connect my solar battery charger (because the Defender is now stored in a garage without mains power). The solar charger has a different (of course!) type of plug. I need a (male) plug that looks like the one on the right:
Any ideas where I can source one? Done the usual searches, but turned-up nothing...apart from to buy a CTEK cigarette-type adaptor and cut the end off  Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Jan 2013 4:24pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6588 
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You can't buy the connectors separately, you'll have to go down the cigarette adapter + cut route.
1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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24th Jan 2013 4:26pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2664
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Thanks, Martin, I was starting to think that may be the case. I did find a German company called "tola tools" who offer this (which would have been a good start)...it's a CTEK "old to New" adaptor:
The product is 6.90 EUR, But the postage killed the idea, it would have been over 20 Euros shipped...  The ciggie lighter one is cheaper... Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Jan 2013 4:31pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6588
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Ah-ha!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/C-Tek-Comfort-Conn...00ADIHUUW/ Although there is no picture, this is what you found above (CTEK part number 56-689) 1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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24th Jan 2013 4:37pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2664
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Martin - you're a STAR! How did I miss that!
I ordered it straight away. Thank You   Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Jan 2013 4:42pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2664
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IMO by leaving the CTEK lead (socket) bolted to the battery terminals full-time, and now with a source of plugs, it means I can also run accessories from the lead whenever I want, or indeed charge it when it's not being driven for a few weeks. The comfort indicator will let me know if the battery's being discharged. Perfick
For anyone else's benefit (save a few hours of googling), see the part here http://www.ctekchargers.co.uk/ctek-56689.php £4.99 (delivered) from Amazon (thanks to Martin ) Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Jan 2013 4:45pm |
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| WarPig Member Since: 05 Dec 2009 Location: Sheffield Posts: 1748  
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Ive fitted a Ctek comfort indicator lead to my caravan battery which I store in my garage, they really are good. See last post on this page...
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic2032-6450.html |
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25th Jan 2013 3:56pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2664
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Thanks WarPig - looks perfect.
My Defender often sits for a few weeks without being used (although I somehow managed 9000 miles last year!). I'll be having a play this weekend. There seems to be a dash-mount CTEK battery checker as well - maybe try that one day
It would look good in the Defender dash, and provide a useful plug-in for accessories (or plug-in the CTEK charger): Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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25th Jan 2013 4:00pm |
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| Lorryman100 Member Since: 01 Oct 2010 Location: Here Posts: 2686 |
The comfort indicator panel is a good idea, only thing is that the supplied lead would need to be extended to reach the dash. I loosely fitted my one into the nakatanenga safe and fed the cable through an unused mounting hole to the battery. Now as I have swapped the naka safe for a GMB one I will mount the fitting into the front of the safe for ease of access when using the remap interface/diagnostic tools.
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25th Jan 2013 8:10pm |
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| SGH Member Since: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Hellingly-Sussex Posts: 1527
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Click image to enlarge Mine |
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25th Jan 2013 8:29pm |
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| WarPig Member Since: 05 Dec 2009 Location: Sheffield Posts: 1748
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Interesting. I didnt realise the ctek panel display was the same size as a carling switch. I have a few blank carlings on my mud console. So can I just replace one with the ctek display? Last edited by WarPig on 25th Jan 2013 10:04pm. Edited 1 time in total |
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25th Jan 2013 10:01pm |
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| WarPig Member Since: 05 Dec 2009 Location: Sheffield Posts: 1748
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Brian, Ctek do two cable lengths, 1.5m & 3.3M http://www.ctek.com/gb/en/accessories/56-836 |
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25th Jan 2013 10:04pm |
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| Lorryman100 Member Since: 01 Oct 2010 Location: Here Posts: 2686 |
The one I have is less than 1m in length.  |
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25th Jan 2013 10:33pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2664
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Superb info here chaps, thanks
I like SGH's setup...I can see a dash-mount and extender cable being ordered soon  Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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25th Jan 2013 11:04pm |
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