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Battery charger connection

Postby SLOSR11S » Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:07 am

Morning all

School boy error here. Bought an Optimate charger thinking I could plug straight into this connection. Wrong. Anyone able to indentify this one and maybe suggest a work around. I suppose I could left all the body work and fit the Optimate lead onto the battery but time is scarce just now. Thanks in advance. Sorry I just can't seem to get the images to appear on Boxertrix for some reason. Tried all the combinations.

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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby milleplod » Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:16 am

You need an adapter lead that enables connection to the later SAE type. eBay item no. 352452722463 will do nicely! :)

https://www.optimate.co.uk/optimate-connectors/

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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby SLOSR11S » Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:56 am

Ah that's really straightforward. Brilliant, thanks Pete.

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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby Grip Fast » Tue Feb 05, 2019 9:25 am

I recently had to replace my Optimate after it gave up in the heatwave (remember the heatwave - doesn't seem possible now). Anyhoo, I couldn't get a new one with the old style connector (as in your photo above), so also had to get new fly leads. Bummer. I now have a couple of old style connector fly leads spare.

Why did they feel the need to change connector style, I wonder?

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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby milleplod » Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:56 am

Grip Fast wrote:I recently had to replace my Optimate after it gave up in the heatwave (remember the heatwave - doesn't seem possible now). Anyhoo, I couldn't get a new one with the old style connector (as in your photo above), so also had to get new fly leads. Bummer. I now have a couple of old style connector fly leads spare.

Why did they feel the need to change connector style, I wonder?


So they can sell you an adapter! :lol:
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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:37 pm

I see you hunt by day and night .
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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby milleplod » Tue Feb 05, 2019 7:18 pm

The Teutonic Tangerine wrote:I see you hunt by day and night .


I did, back in the day....85 Sqn. :D
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Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:44 pm

:occasion5: :occasion5: :D I had to look it up. I like to look up these things - Nunc est bibendum
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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby milleplod » Tue Feb 05, 2019 9:21 pm

The Teutonic Tangerine wrote::occasion5: :occasion5: :D I had to look it up. I like to look up these things - Nunc est bibendum


Cheers! :occasion5:

I did Latin at 'O' level....the only thing I can remember, apart from the RAF's and old squadron's mottos of course, is 'da mihi osculum meum suspirium'...... :shock: :lol:

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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:57 am

milleplod wrote:
The Teutonic Tangerine wrote::occasion5: :occasion5: :D I had to look it up. I like to look up these things - Nunc est bibendum


Cheers! :occasion5:

I did Latin at 'O' level....the only thing I can remember, apart from the RAF's and old squadron's mottos of course, is 'da mihi osculum meum suspirium'...... :shock: :lol:

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A useful chat up line in 50 BC in Ancient Rome I suspect :D
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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby SLOSR11S » Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:44 pm

quote="milleplod"]You need an adapter lead that enables connection to the later SAE type. eBay item no. 352452722463 will do nicely! :)

https://www.optimate.co.uk/optimate-connectors/

Pete[/quote]

Afternoon all.

That connector doesn't fit after all. The TM end is male the same as the cable coming from the battery and its a CTEK fitting on the battery end i found out (my eye sight isn't what it once was). I gave Optimate a call. Very friendly helpful people. They say that they don't have an adaptor to fit the CTEK. So unless i can find another work around i'll get on with lifting the bodywork to fit the Optimate SAE eyelet cable to the battery. Cheers for now.

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Re: Battery charger connection

Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Fri Feb 08, 2019 2:43 pm

I had a similar problem. the Dealer had fitted a charger tail to the battery it had a black plug with a red rubber cap - My low end optimate came with a white Nylon plug. So I bought some new nylon plugs from e bay and changed the plug on the tail from the battery. This now matches a wire from a power socket (fag lighter type to power up my sat nav which I fitted into the bottom of the storage bin in the fairing) so when I want to connect the charger I lift the seat and disconnect the power socket and plug in the charger
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