nickjonesn4 said:I'm sure other chargers are good. The reality is that Ctek are the industry standard. All car storage operations and dealers use them because they work really really well. For the sake of £30 difference I would go for the CTek as it's total piece of mind.
The recondition function has cured a long running battery problem on my AMG.
C-Tek charger is my 1st choice ... it is a good piece of kit , easy to use , ergonomical controls are good and functions are adequate ..... MXS 5.0 is the best of them IMO
They are NOT infallible however and although supposed to be IP 65 I had a failure recently in our wintery weather when the snow melted of underside of DD car returned into the garage.... water seems to have got in ... I heard an unhealthy sizzling sound and it was tripping the RCD in the power circuit.
Replaced with the spare charger ( meant changing to the comfort connector tails direct to the battery, as it was the non-comfort early connector ) but now back up and charging ok.
I bought an Optimate to try out when opportunity permits and that one looks almost as functional as the C- TeK.
PS
There are instances though when the C-Tek smart charger ( and this type of charger ) cannot see the internal resistance of the battery if it drops too low ... it will not sense an start charging.
If you find that you have this , simply connect ( Viz mag wording ) a healthy battery in parallel until charging starts,then you may remove the healthy battery, the charger will only charge the unhealthy one obviously.