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CTEK 56-380 Comfort Indicator Panel |  | Brand: CTEK Power
Category: Automotive Parts and Accessories
Buy New: Too low to display
as of 7/30/2010 05:44 CDT details
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7120
Media: Automotive
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9 x 3.4
MPN: 56380
Model: 56-380
EAN: 7350009563802
ASIN: B002OHXX60
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Quick connect | | • | Popular Mechanic's Editors Choice Product 2008 | | • | See your battery | | • | Shows battery condition also during the summer | | • | Traffic light for battery condition |
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Product Description
mfr: CTEK COMFORT INDICATOR PAN
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| Customer Reviews:
 charger plug May 6, 2010
C. Moran
Works ok, really just a quick adapter as the comfort lights go fom green to amber nearly immediatly
 An awesome jack to go with an awesome charger March 28, 2010
HMMWV (santa clara, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In my other reviews about the ctek chargers I explained WHY they are the best charger on the market today for lead acid 12 VDC batteries. This input jack does 3 things to help you get the most out of your ctek charger:
1 - it mounts permanently into a space available on your console and gives you a 24x7 alert as to the state of your battery's charge - note this is an EXACT FIT replacement for a factory din switch on many european or asian imports - I installed it into an empty spot on my honda dash just by pushing in on it and the grippers held it in place - simplest install all day long.
2 - it hardwires directly to the battery avoiding the extra resistance from the car's fusebox (say if you used the cigarette lighter plug instead you'd be going through 2 fuses and a fusable link to the battery)
3 - it is a dedicated port to plug in your ctek charger that you can locate conveniently anywhere you please in the vehicle, making the process of connecting up any one of the ctek chargers even easier.
Before I bought this I had to lift the hood (bonnet) and clip on the charger when I parked while waiting for my new battery to arrive via the pony express. Now I can just plug in the ctek and top off the charge any time. Admittedly if everything were functioning perfectly or you never had to store your car for a long period, this would not be needed, but we do not yet live in a perfect world, thus it makes life a tad bit easier.
Having used this with the ctek's optima battery setting (I also changed to an optima battery Optima Batteries 8012-021 D34 YellowTop Dual Purpose Battery so that I had some deep cycle capability on my honda) it has had a second value.
I installed an escord 9500ix radar detector at the same time Escort Passport 9500ix Radar/Laser Detector (Black). These perform better if their reference oscillator is kept at a constant temperature, so by plugging my car in at night I can keep the radar detector warm so that the next day it's database of nuisance frequencies is dead on and doesn't make any mistakes with police radar because it counts the wrong frequency as it warms up. This is true of all timebases from clocks to caesium beam frequency standards - they work better when left on. The gps can also get updates about what satellites are not working well during the night so it is already running with live data when I drive out and not trying to acquire the 4 best satellites. Also if I forget to turn off the 110 VAC inverter in the car I won't have a dead battery from it draining the optima with the radar unit all night long.
I'm discovering many benefits to keeping your car plugged in, and this jack makes it exceptionally easy to do.
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