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Code: CTEK56158
Retail:$74.99
Price:$69.99
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Shipping SpecialThis powerful, all-weather, four-step charger uses a patented, pulse-maintenance system to charge and maintain all household 12V batteries - cars, campers, mowers, trucks and boats. A practical battery charger fits most applications.
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This CTEK charger comes w/ two battery cables: one w/ clamp terminals and one w/ eyelet terminals. The 16" long eyelet-terminal cable can be left attached to the battery, and the clamp-terminal cable is great for temporary connections.
Whenever you want to charge the battery, just plug CTEK's patented Comfort Connect attachment terminal into the receiving end on either of the provided battery cables.
Safe, four-step process uses switch-mode, pulse-maintenance technology.
A goof-proof design distinguishes CTEK's new-generation chargers from the competition - you don't have to be a mechanical guru to keep your battery working at top efficiency. CTEK's patented charging system monitors your battery, providing exactly the charge it needs during each unique charging stage!
Your personal safety is paramount, and CTEK's spark-free, short-circuit-proof design incorporates a feature that prevents reverse polarity, keeping you safe. You simply cannot make a polarity mistake: The charger will not operate if it is attached incorrectly. In addition, the red alarm light on the charger alerts you if there is a reverse-polarity problem.
CTEK's patented, switch-mode, pulse-maintenance charging system is scientifically engineered to safely charge your battery by employing the most up-to-date technology. Using carefully monitored, low-grid voltage, CTEK's patented process differs from competitors' chargers in its ability to provide the precise final voltage that your battery needs to maintain optimum charge level. This sophisticated, interactive device will never overcharge or undercharge your battery. You may leave it attached to the battery for months, making it perfect for seasonal vehicle storage.
Won't cause overcharging or overheating. These together can cause gassing and excessive acid concentration that shortens the life of the battery by corroding the lead plates. When overcharged, the battery cells become dried out. Electrolytes "boil dry," generating excessive heat that can cause a fire.
Won't cause undercharging or sulfation. Undercharging can be just as damaging to your battery as overcharging because chronic undercharging leads to sulfation. Sulfation occurs when the lead and lead dioxide of the battery's plates react w/ sulfuric battery acid to produce lead sulfate. This in turn is converted back to lead, lead oxide and sulfuric acid. A small, unavoidable amount of sulfation and gassing naturally takes place as a result of the chemical processes occurring in lead-acid batteries. However, extensive undercharging causes extra lead sulfate to accumulate on the lead plates of the battery. Because the crystalline form of the sulfate cannot hold an electrical charge, excessive sulfation greatly diminishes the charging ability of the battery, eventually rendering it unusable.
Provides desulfation w/ a patented process. Desulfation is the reversal of sulfation damage. The CTEK charger's unique process not only prevents the undercharging that produces excess sulfation, it also includes a desulfating step that can often "revive" a lightly sulfated battery. It accomplishes this w/ carefully monitored electronic pulses of energy that help to break down the lead sulfate crystals, allowing the battery to accept charge once again.
Ensures consistent charging w/ low ripple-wave percentage rate. Ripple-wave percentage is the quantity of disturbances exhibited in current and voltage. Even minor variations in household current can cause undercharging or overcharging, but CTEK's low-ripple design regulates the incoming current before passing it on to your battery. This process can cause the charger to be a little slower than linear chargers but results in a healthier, more productive, longer-lasting battery.
The charger is also safe for your vehicle. Its sophisticated circuitry is designed to be compatible w/ today's sensitive electronics and audio equipment. You can confidently charge your battery while it is still in the vehicle: no more hefting heavy batteries or dealing w/ tiresome system resetting! CTEK's low ripple rate eliminates the danger of damaging electronic devices connected to the battery, and it prolongs the battery's service life.
Indicator lights on the face of the charger light up to show the current charging stage.
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Video of CTEK MULTI US 3300 12-Volt Universal Battery Charger w/ Pulse Maintenance
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Today we are going to review part number CTEK56158 from CTEK. This is a 12 volt universal battery charger. What this does is maintains your battery. You could consider this a smart charger, instead of a trickle charger that just throws juice in all the time at a steady rate, this one is smart enough to know when and how much to but in the battery itself. All right we will go ahead through the components of the charger. :25
First off you see it comes in a bag. A nice detail about the bag itself is it comes with a loop, so you can but a nail or screw in the wall and hang it in the garage and not worry about it. On the backside it has a pocket. Go ahead and take out the contents. What this comes with is one set of clips to charge your battery with, this is really handy when you have the battery out of the vehicle. It is also fused. This is all sealed so you can use these outdoors too. You have another harness you can bolt onto the terminals and your battery charger plugs in the backside here. And both of these pieces can do that. 1:10
And then onto the charger itself. It has a generous lead on there, to hook up to the battery underneath your vehicle especially if it sits in the back. Some newer cars are doing that now. And of course this plugs into a conventional 110 outlet. We will plug this up and actually show you the functions on the charger itself. To start off the demonstration what we are going to do is just use the clamps on our battery here. Red to red. Black to black. Red to positive. Black to negative. We have our port right here that our charger will plug into. A good application for this is if you live in a cold environment, if it gets below freezing one night and the car has to sit outside it might be a good idea to maintain the battery. Since it is weather proof you can leave everything outside. So we will plug these two together. To unplug it we will push this little tab down. Since we have a secure connection with that go ahead and plug in your charger. We have it plugged in. We have our power light right here, obviously tells us we have power to the charger. Next, we will go ahead and which kind of vehicle battery we are going to charge. We have a motorcycle, an automotive, and a snowflake. What the snowflake is for is if your battery is sitting outside in the cold for a very long time and it has not been used, you really can not put a lot of juice through it right off the bat. The chargers will not do that but that still have a system for that. So it is a really nice detail there. 2:46
For our application we are going to go to the car, so push mode button. Right there is where you can tell it is working and shows that the battery is partly charged, so right now it is going to go to work using its four step process to go ahead and recharge the battery. This will take on average about 3 to 4 hours. Leave this vehicle sit over night and charge it up, no problem at all. In fact, you could leave this on there for a month. This exclamation mark is on there to tell you have AAA 3.10 reversed on the clamps going to your battery. When the battery is fully charged you will see that the green light will come on. If you knock one of the clamps off the battery terminals. It will actually tell you something is wrong by flashing partially charged and charge to let you know that something is not right. Next, we will go ahead and install our other type of terminals to our battery. For instance, if this vehicle is going to sit around for a long time, instead of getting the clamps out and all that we can just plug it in and go. A couple ways of doing this, you can take out the little tabs on the positive terminal here, back the whole bolt out, and then just go ahead and put this right behind it. You do not want to do that if it is in bad shape. Another trick is, providing you have long enough threads on the backside, you can use a simple 6 millimeter nut, we have just enough on this one to make contact. That should be plenty. Then we will go ahead, back over to our negative terminal and put our other lead back onto that. Get the 6 millimeter nut reinstalled. Tighten down our 6 millimeter nut. I kind of favor this better because it is a more secure connection to the battery, you do not have to worry about a clamp coming loose. Now we can take our charger and connect it. And we are done. At this point we could leave this on the battery for months at a time if we wanted to. And it is thin enough, you could probably route it through the grill or somewhere in the body work of the vehicle and shut your hood on it.
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