Who uses CTEK MXS 5.0 for their winter trickle charger/tender?

[FreePenguin]

c tek or battery tender jr, you can't go wrong either way. but I must say ive had my battery tender jr 4 bank charger set up for 8 years, haven't unplugged it once, only times its lost power was from a power outage to house.

not a single fault yet.

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[young at heart]

Guys, while we’re on this battery tender thing a quick question. When hooking the tender direct to the battery terminals is there a way to remove your car’s battery cables without losing all the stuff the computers have learned? Maybe a time window of some kind? Kind of a PITA teaching the A10 how I want to roll.

 

[FreePenguin]

I never used one, but I believe there's some kind of little battery charger (like a mini battery device) you plug into your cig lighter that keeps everything alive while people swap batteries. does it work on this? no idea. but I know ive heard of members talking about them here.

https://www.amazon.com/battery-memory-saver/s?k=battery+memory+saver

 

[Järn]

Went to start the Mustang on Saturday and take it for a quick run around the block as I hadn't even started it in 2 weeks and it hasn't been driven in at least a month, maybe a month in a half.

Battery didn't have the power to crank it over. Had to jump start it from my winter beater (whoever makes jumper cables so short needs to be shot).

Now that this is an issue I'm looking at one of these. Anyone have any reviews on them and their Mustang?
Are there any sage words on how to connect to the terminals? How long to run the tickle charger for? Anything words of wisdom for a noob?

Figure I would get the deal before spending friggen $129.00 CDN lol

I have the CTEK MSX 5.0. This is the 4th winter with it maintaining the original battery. It works great. I have also used it to repair/charge other car batteries that were unable to start a car. The 8-stage process does everything I need it to do. I also use this when doing Ford Sync software upgrades.

 

[MCS]

I also use this when doing Ford Sync software upgrades.

You just leave the car on in Standby mode with this plugged in?

 

[Järn]

You just leave the car on in Standby mode with this plugged in?

Yes.

 

[Tucker80]

Not sure why anyone would be hooking up a battery tender to directly to the battery anymore. There's a great write up on how to hook it to the fuse block for quick and clean installation.

 

[young at heart]

Not sure why anyone would be hooking up a battery tender to directly to the battery anymore. There's a great write up on how to hook it to the fuse block for quick and clean installation.

Where?

 

[Tucker80]

Where?

post 4. Skye linked the threads with the installs. Incredibly easy and you'd never know it's there when it's not charging.

 

[young at heart]

post 4. Skye linked the threads with the installs. Incredibly easy and you'd never know it's there when it's not charging.

Thank you!

 

[tosha]

Costco has Battery Tender for roughly half the cost of the model from first post available in stores. Just FYI.

 

[Tank.]

I use a battery tender, it hasn't let me down yet. Below are references for how I hooked it up.

 

[Rapid Red]

I was surprised that EVERY car, all 500 or so, at the Melbourne FL Muscle Car Museum had a CTEK maintaining every car battery. I've known large car collectors that take the batteries out, and others that follow a maintenance schedule for hooking up/charging batteries periodically, but that was a first for me. Pondering the different options taken, the muscle car museum had a better solution of the museums I'm familiar with for battery health. But there was definitely quite an investment in maintainers for those 500 or so cars.

If one has 500 cars, that cost is a drop in the bucket.

 

[Rapid Red]

I use a battery tender, it hasn't let me down yet. Below are references for how I hooked it up.

Pretty much the way I do it, but park the charger on the top of the tire.

 

[ice445]

I've used one for years, works great. I found that connecting directly to the terminals works better for some reason. If you do it the way you're supposed to and connect the negative to a ground before the current sensor, I found that over a long enough time the car would get confused and charge at an unnecessary high rate the first few drives after you'd disconnect it. Something to do with the deep sleep mode I guess.

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