Stealth and easy to connect battery conditioner socket

[KOY 23]

Hi Keith.
i think you are right using the smaller din plug as it has better contacts and a positive latch holding the plug in. I have never been a fan of fag lighter with its spring loaded centre pin pushing the connection apart. Push a few amps through a fag lighter and it soon gets hot, well it does on my modern and I would not consider it on the Stag.

[XFSTag]

Paul
I think your idea worthy of note mate. As an owner of a TVR I have to have some method of getting juice to the battery that's independent of opening doors bonnets and boot! Everything on a TVR is electrically operated so if you have a dead battery you have to resort to "stealing" your own car to get into the damn thing! To make matters worse the battery is in the passenger foot well so access isn't the best! I already have a heavy duty Anderson type socket fitted which enables jump leads to be used without getting to the battery but a simple form of easily accessible charging socket is needed and your idea is spot on.
I always run a conditioner on the Stag as alarms and more modern radios do pull a small charge and a conditioner makes sure the battery is "conditioned".

Don't let any of the negative remarks bother you, this forum is all about people developing simple solutions and sharing ideas and problems, sadly it's been lacking recently, but that's what many of us on here need and want and the reason we pay our subs, keep the ideas coming mate.
All the best Glyn

[Always wanted a Stag]

Hi Keith.
i think you are right using the smaller din plug as it has better contacts and a positive latch holding the plug in. I have never been a fan of fag lighter with its spring loaded centre pin pushing the connection apart. Push a few amps through a fag lighter and it soon gets hot, well it does on my modern and I would not consider it on the Stag.

I fully agree with you that most of the cigarette plugs are poorly made and can spring out too easily and they have electrical connections that are scarily close to each other.
As a result, the ones that I decided to use are marine application versions which have a good locking feature whereby you twist the plug through 90 degrees to lock and unlock the plug from the socket.
They are a touch pricey but it's a bit of the old 'you get what you pay for'.

I am grateful to Keith for the link to the smaller diameter plugs as I couldn't find them when I was looking for such an item and I assumed that they may only be easily obtainable in some of the European countries like Germany and France (wrong !!).

Best regards

Paul

[Staggard]

Keith, the modified co-ordinator has already commented in this thread.

Reading between the lines I think Keith knows that mate hence the stickie out tongue at the end of the post

[LAMBRETTLAD]

Hi
Love the info on the marine socket ,thanks "always wanted " Paul

cheers Alex

[Kevin Garrod]

Reading between the lines I think Keith knows that mate hence the stickie out tongue at the end of the post

Another example of how comments can be misconstrued, I didn't notice the emoticon.

[Stagsongas]

Don't let any of the negative remarks bother you, this forum is all about people developing simple solutions and sharing ideas and problems, sadly it's been lacking recently, but that's what many of us on here need and want and the reason we pay our subs, keep the ideas coming mate.
All the best Glyn

Glyn,

Seeing someone else put into words my thoughts in a better way than I could myself is rare, too rare to let it pass without comment.

Thank you.

Steve

[edd]

How about a visual reminder hung on the steering wheel saying charger that would stop you driving off with it attached .
Just a thought
Edd

[Always wanted a Stag]

How about a visual reminder hung on the steering wheel saying charger that would stop you driving off with it attached .
Just a thought
Edd

What I do is put the SOC badge with the cigarette plug sticking up (see attached photo), on the driver's seat as a reminder that the car is attached to the charger.

It works rather well.

I used to hang the ignition key on the charger to promt me to disconnect the unit but the pain of sitting on the badge/plug seems to work best

Paul