That's all well and good, but if you have a power cut you'll need a battery, or a generator.
As luck would have it most cars have an electricity generator on board and as if by magic, they're 12 volt, perfect for charging car batteries.
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[Help] Car battery charger advice
- Thread starter essbee1
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That's all well and good, but if you have a power cut you'll need a battery, or a generator.
As luck would have it most cars have an electricity generator on board and as if by magic, they're 12 volt, perfect for charging car batteries.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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The battery on the car is flat - lack of use more than anything.
So I bought one of the Halfords battery chargers for about 50 quid.
I want to charge the battery while the battery is in the car, but the battery charger
showed no LEDs or life on it to suggest it is working when I connected the red and black
clips.
Nowhere in the instructions does it say that you have to charge the charger first.
Would I need to stick the battery charger in the mains for a while TO charge it up before
I could try again on the car? (Seems like an obvious thing.)
Any advice welcome. Thanks very much...
Is it one of those " Charger pack " things ? I had one of them and the maintenance is quite excessive, went to use mine after a year and found it did not work any more, then found out I should charge it every 3 months even if I haven't used it or it packs up !
LamieRobertson
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You need to get advice from [MENTION=11350]LamieRobertson[/MENTION]
He's clued up at getting elderly engines chugging again
At work again...or playing with your marrow
Absolutely, great advice.
AmexRuislip
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schmunk
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Actually, that's a point. My car has a 240v socket in it, so I could plug that into my house to charge up the mains, and then use that to charge the battery.
I'm alright Jack.
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Yes indeed Vegster.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,908
Actually, that's a point. My car has a 240v socket in it, so I could plug that into my house to charge up the mains, and then use that to charge the battery.
I'm alright Jack.
Until the global sea level rise gets you.
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
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Same thing happened to me. [emoji24]
schmunk
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Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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And me....when I needed the bugger