CTEK XS 0.8 Battery Charger 12V, Battery Tender Charger, Smart Battery Charger Motorcycle, ATV, JetSki, Watercraft, Lawn Mower, Battery Maintainer, Trickle Charger, Desulfation Mode (UK Model)

In summary; This is a battery maintainer. It will monitor and maintain the health of your vehicles battery to ensure it does not deplete or overcharge. This will prolong the life of your battery and help ensure your vehicle available for you. Using the device is very simple, connect it to your battery, keep an eye on the indicators and how long each light has been illuminated, i.e. if the the maintainer hasn't moved to 'step 4' after 24 hours then there is an issue with your battery. The steps and timings are all detailed within the CTEK manual supplied. Once at Step 5 the device will happily sit and monitor / top up as required.It can be used for small or large batteries (up to 100Ah) - please ignore the other reviews here suggesting that you should spend more money for other CTEK chargers such as the MXS 5.0 etc. for larger batteries - this is simply not true. The CTEK manual confirms this support batteries up to 100Ah. I have this connected to a 70Ah - 760A battery and the 0.8 keeps the battery in perfect condition. The CTEK device does not feel warm or make any buzzing noises.I wasted too much money on cheap poor quality chargers and hours of my life messing about with heavy car batteries! I finally came to my sense and paid out the premium and i'm so sorry for not having done it sooner!When buying the CTEK the questions I asked myself was:Do I want to leave a cheap clone charger/maintainer plugged in and connected to my cars battery for 24 hours a day? Answer - No. Overcharging carries potential fire hazard. CTEK is a quality Swiss brand you can trust, in fact the battery maintainers sold by the top-end car manufacturers dealerships (Bentley, Porsche, Merc etc.. ) are actually this exact product, manufactured by CTEK and re-branded and sold by these dealerships at three times the price!Do I want to risk damaging the delicate electrical components of my vehicle? - No. Okay so this item is more expensive than some 'clones' however it is significantly cheaper than the potential damage I could do by constantly attaching and detaching a powerful 8 amp charger/maintainer to my vehicle delicate electrical circuity.The CTEK 0.8 conveniently allows me to alternate between the two batteries in my car. I have the device itself hanging on the wall. I purchased the 'CTEK Connect 2.5m Extension' to extend the range and the 'CTEK Indicator eyelet m8' so that I can conveniently attached to a second battery (as only one set of eyelets is supplied with the CTEK 0.8). A couple of 'L hooks' from the hardware store and I now have the CTEK safely attached to the wall where I can easily monitor the status of the battery. See image attached. Also using the Connect Extension also means that if the cable becomes damaged then I only have to replace that cheaper cable rather than the whole CTEK maintainer.I hope you found my review useful and it helped to answer your questions?If so, please click helpful below so that others can find it too!

Some things one just can’t do without, and for us this is one of them. We avoid using our car as much as possible - once in two weeks is about our limit! In between we keep this handy little charger plugged in and the battery has stayed in good condition throughout the two years we have had the charger. The longest we have ever left it plugged in is five weeks while we were away from home. The car started first time! Obviously this is extreme, but even if the car is ever going to be left parked for longer than a week, I think it is worth having one of these to make sure the battery is kept healthy. In my experience modern sealed batteries are less forgiving if mistreated.The charger is small and well made. Cables seem good quality and the indicator lights on the front make it easy to follow the charge cycle. I like the fact that, because we use it so often, there is a spare set of short connectors that can be left permanently connected to the battery, making it easy to just plug in the charger when needed rather than using the crocodile clips.I think if there is one criticism I have of this charger, it is that I would have liked the power lead or the battery lead to be a metre or so longer.Update: four year's onStill doing a great job. Truly one of those things that anyone that has a car should not be without. Brilliant!

I purchased this to keep the battery fully charged on a car that isn't used very much.This is a small and compact charger, and the build quality is very good. The quick release mechanism for attaching the crocodile plug or small ring terminal leads is very handy. This also allows you to easily attach the optional charge extension lead or 12v accessory socket plug so that you can charge via the cars 12v accessory socket. If you're planning on doing the latter, make sure that the socket is live even with your ignition off, otherwise it won't charge.This is a trickle charger, outputting max 1.2A, and will therefore take a long time to charge a 30Ah+ (Most cars) battery from flat, although it will do it. If you want to charge a large battery quickly, then other more powerful products will be more suitable.It really comes into its own though for charging smaller batteries (such as on a motorbike) or for maintaining car (or campervan) batteries where time isn't an issue or where you just need to keep them in a fully charged condition between uses. The LED lights give you a good indication of what stage the battery charging is at, a completely flat 36Ah battery I charged went to nearly full in about 60 hours, and then the charger drops output to a maintenance charge to keep it full. These status LEDs are an improvement over the old model which just had LEDs to show power was on and charging.The small drawstring carry case is very useful for keeping everything together in between charges.Overall, I'm very pleased with the product, and for the money is excellent value.

Works great but has a few annoying things. For some reason they went with a proprietary connector that's quite bulky so I have to either buy new connectors for all my bikes or get a SAE adapter. It would also help if the display actually had some writing on it instead of just numbering the certain stages of charging and expecting you to remember what they mean.