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....I don't know what possessed me not to chuck the thing anyway...they are certainly not available here...I'm looking at a fork-lift battery, maybe, or just a car-battery,and chuck it out every so often...what bothers me is that they use car batteries in the UPS systems that drive central heating pumps, and one decent power cut would probably knacker a battery...looks like having to get a genny!
When you said the 70A relay had blown I thought you meant the Willinton one............................I also guess you mean there's a fuse before and after the relay.......................missfixit70 wrote:If that one's meant for me, there is a relay before & after the relay - Willinton kit, need I say moredandywarhol wrote:If the relay got damaged then best to fit a fuse before it to save it next time.
I was sure I'd typed fuse, not relay 
Somebody keeps disconnecting my fingers from my brain 
That'll be me - I'm the master of itmissfixit70 wrote:
Wait till you tip over the threshold into your 50's.......missfixit70 wrote:The incidence of brainfarts is definitely increasing as I get closer to leaving my 30's
Same specs as the Aldi one I have built into my Bongo.....but the Aldi is £12.99....missfixit70 wrote:If it's the same as this one - http://www.vertar.com/ctek/ctek-multi-xs-3600/ then I think that's basically the same as the intelligent one that's charging it at the mo.
the only real difference other than the case is the Aldi didn't have the eyelet connectors for the Battery terminals, although I believe the CTEK ones are too small in any case Phew - thanks Mike, I was just beginning to doubt whether my Aldi one did the same jobmikexgough wrote:Same specs as the Aldi one I have built into my Bongo.....but the Aldi is £12.99....missfixit70 wrote:If it's the same as this one - http://www.vertar.com/ctek/ctek-multi-xs-3600/ then I think that's basically the same as the intelligent one that's charging it at the mo.
Haven't checked it yet today to see if it held charge overnight 
I noticed that, but wonder if it's just there as legal jargon. I used mine on a 12v motorbike battery that had been flat/unused for about 4 years - it fired it back to life a treatmissfixit70 wrote:Mine's one of the Aldi/Lidl ones, in the destructions it says it won't pull it back up from below 7.5v
I now use it to power an 8w neon tube when beach fishing Incidentally, my 8A normal battery charger failed to do anything with the battery My little battery didn't even register anything on the tester and I just topped it up with tap water (nothing to lose ) Maybe it was because it was only about a year old when last used, so the plates were probably in good nick 
Bitch fishing 
It's shocked and stunned I is helen&tony wrote:Hi John...
Why would I want to do that??? Had the last one for over 20 years and wouldn't want to go there again 
