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| seriesonenut Member Since: 19 Nov 2014 Location: Essex Posts: 1211  
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Hi Mike
I have a couple of types, the Defender is hooked up full time to a CTEK MXS 5.0 which is now about 3 years old, no issues and the other is a cheap £15 Aldi/Lidl smart charger which looks after the series one. Both work fine hooked up all of the time. The cheap one comes up from time to time on offers. 2010 XS USW 1957 Series One 88 diesel 1958 Series One 88 4x2 |
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4th Nov 2020 5:52pm |
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| Jimb1978 Member Since: 05 Sep 2012 Location: Huddersfield Posts: 808  
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I once built a toy lander and the kit came with an acumate pro (£130 from their website) and it works well 2002 110 td5
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4th Nov 2020 5:53pm |
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| Bluest Member Since: 23 Apr 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 4209 
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If you want to go bargain basement, I’ve been using a 4 amp Lidl smart charger with the voltage display from the middle aisle. Works fine, the only thing it really lacks it the deep recovery mode for damaged batteries which the more expensive ones have. It charges my 95ah main battery and my 120ah AGM with no trouble (separately, not at the same time). 2007 110 TDCi Station Wagon XS
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4th Nov 2020 7:11pm |
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| Notyalc Member Since: 27 Jul 2018 Location: Northumberland Posts: 161 
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Novo and ctek are good, like others can be left on continuously..
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4th Nov 2020 7:35pm |
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| bear100 Member Since: 22 Mar 2010 Location: South Wales Posts: 1916  
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Ctek is highly recommended, the mx05 has a recon function which works brilliantly I had a battery fail and used the recon function which transformed the battery to better than it was new! 2016 Range Rover Autobiography 4.4 TDV8
2010 110 XS Utility 2.4TDCI 2010 Range Rover Sport TDV8 (gone) 2007 Discovery HSE TDV6 (gone) 1993 110 csw 200 tdi (gone) 1994 90 HT 300 tdi (gone) 1994 discovery 300tdi (gone) 90 hybrid 3.5 v8 (gone) Range rover bobtail 3.5 v8 (gone) |
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4th Nov 2020 9:03pm |
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| Mossberg Member Since: 29 Feb 2020 Location: Lancs Posts: 553 
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Aldi ones work and currently on offer! Fantastic price!!
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4th Nov 2020 10:23pm |
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| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 8027  
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Airflow Cheers
James 110 2012 XS Utility 130 2011 M57 bespoke Camper 90 2010 Hardtop 90 M57 1988 Hardtop |
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5th Nov 2020 6:06am |
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| stew 46 Member Since: 26 Jan 2012 Location: Wadebridge ,cornwall . Posts: 561 
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I have a ring charger and it works great .
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5th Nov 2020 6:21am |
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| Dinnu Member Since: 24 Dec 2019 Location: Lija Posts: 3414  
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Recently bought one of these. I cannot really fault it. Voltages and currents displayed match with the actual output.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Smart-Intellige...SwiA5foTSm 1988 90 Hard Top, 19J Diesel Turbo, Shire Blue - Restoration ongoing 2012 90 CSW, 2.2TDCI, Santorini Black |
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5th Nov 2020 7:17am |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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Just check if you have issues with power cuts. I live in the country and frequently have micro power cuts, sometimes only lasting a few seconds, but enough to put some of the cheaper chargers back into standby mode rather than full trickle/monitoring mode. CTEK chargers seem to "reboot" themselves after such events. |
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5th Nov 2020 9:40am |
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| Mike c Member Since: 11 Aug 2017 Location: Maldon, Essex Posts: 928 
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, given me a few to look at
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5th Nov 2020 9:54am |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4660 
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 Click image to enlarge 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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5th Nov 2020 12:22pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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One more vote for CTEK. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
Richard |
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5th Nov 2020 1:52pm |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5110 
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CTEK, faultless, one of the best charger brands on the market. For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..
http://www.youtube.com/user/conwy1 |
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5th Nov 2020 2:22pm |
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