Shiny Enfield; but what of the charger?
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:29 am
Hey folks,
So we collected my mum's Enfield from Wales last weekend; a trip which apart from Nikki's dog being rather sick on me was remarkably incident free (given I've never driven with a trailer before!). It looks incredibly good:
(There's a few photos here...)
It came with a charger, I think - Chloride branded (but unfortunately I didn't get the model number or a photo of it (from the front, I've got one from the back... yeah, I know, I was in a hurry!) - the owner said that it tended not to (automatically) switch off when the batteries were charged - he would just keep an eye on the voltage and then switch it off himself - but I don't think I want to trust my mum to do that...
Nikki mentioned something about measuring various voltages and setting up the charger appropriately; unfortunately I'm 45 miles away from the manual and the charger (and the car) at the moment; my mum is dying to drive it (to it's MOT!) so I wondered if anyone had any advice on how to set up the charger correctly...
I expect Nikki can probably provide more info on the batteries than me; I recall that they said 'Cyclic' on them; but the owner wasn't an Electric car person, and I'm still a bit new and shiny to all this
I 'spect I'll have to go and get more info, but my mum's house is devoid of internet (the best it can get is a modem / 56k anyhow (well, it has an old ISDN line, but it's way to expensive to run)) so yeah, any advice I can grab before I run down there would be handy
So we collected my mum's Enfield from Wales last weekend; a trip which apart from Nikki's dog being rather sick on me was remarkably incident free (given I've never driven with a trailer before!). It looks incredibly good:
(There's a few photos here...)
It came with a charger, I think - Chloride branded (but unfortunately I didn't get the model number or a photo of it (from the front, I've got one from the back... yeah, I know, I was in a hurry!) - the owner said that it tended not to (automatically) switch off when the batteries were charged - he would just keep an eye on the voltage and then switch it off himself - but I don't think I want to trust my mum to do that...
Nikki mentioned something about measuring various voltages and setting up the charger appropriately; unfortunately I'm 45 miles away from the manual and the charger (and the car) at the moment; my mum is dying to drive it (to it's MOT!) so I wondered if anyone had any advice on how to set up the charger correctly...
I expect Nikki can probably provide more info on the batteries than me; I recall that they said 'Cyclic' on them; but the owner wasn't an Electric car person, and I'm still a bit new and shiny to all this
I 'spect I'll have to go and get more info, but my mum's house is devoid of internet (the best it can get is a modem / 56k anyhow (well, it has an old ISDN line, but it's way to expensive to run)) so yeah, any advice I can grab before I run down there would be handy