Ctek or Accumate?
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Toadusmodus

Original Poster:

693 posts

310 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Looking for a decent maintenance charger for the Cerb, what are peoples preferences?

.Mark

11,104 posts

305 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Halfords one, £24.99 or thereabouts have got them on both of mine and they are fab.

There's lots of threads about this very subject and everyone has their own opinion. smile

Allandwf

1,773 posts

224 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Ctek for me, never had to change it, so no idea about the others.

Mr MoJo

4,698 posts

245 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Always had mine on an Accumate. It's never failed me. Can't comment on any others, never used them.

Druid

1,312 posts

210 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Accumate for me through the ciggy lighter!

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hiltonig

3,153 posts

237 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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ctek for me , more advanced and it recovered a deep discharged bat that the accumate could not revive

BazMV6

451 posts

224 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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I just plumped for the CTEK - with ciggie lighter attachment. Neat little box that seems to do the job well.

Mattt

16,664 posts

247 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Accumate for me.

salmon

491 posts

253 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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+1 for accumate through cigi lighter, bought from leven and were spot on. Also accumate on my last chim and had no problems there.

Stevie Mojo

1,520 posts

266 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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.Mark said:
Halfords one
Me too.

.Mark

11,104 posts

305 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Stevie Mojo said:
.Mark said:
Halfords one
Me too.
Phew. I thought I was a loner for a minute. hehe

Gazzab

21,637 posts

311 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Flip a coin.

FUBAR

17,065 posts

267 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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My Cerb has been on an Accumate for 6 years (and sometimes 4 months at a time in the winter). Never had a problem with the unit or, thankfully, starting.

Connected through the ciggie lighter

extremekiter

701 posts

239 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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CTEK all the way!

I use one on my Sagaris wired into the boot light, on my m/cycle/ on m/home and they have NEVER failed!

Touch wood wink

justyn

NiceCupOfTea

25,586 posts

280 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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CTEK. Have heard nasty stories about Accumates overheating and killing themselves. My brother had two die on him.

Gazzab

21,637 posts

311 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Heard Nasty stories if cteks melting ecu's and burning down whole villages.

NiceCupOfTea

25,586 posts

280 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Gazzab said:
Heard Nasty stories if cteks melting ecu's and burning down whole villages.
*shrug* Scoff all you want but my brother had 2 that fried themselves and he's not the only one by all accounts. The guy asked for opinions so here's mine.

Stevie Mojo

1,520 posts

266 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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NiceCupOfTea said:
*shrug* Scoff all you want but my brother had 2 that fried themselves and he's not the only one by all accounts. The guy asked for opinions so here's mine.
I'm sure that was just a joke mate.

Englishman

2,253 posts

239 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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I have one of each, both work!

ThePrisoner

1,076 posts

237 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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I have a CTEK XS 3600, it was wired into the Battery of my V8S.Worked fine for me.Gazzab very witty. biggrin