Good spot, the additional cable on the "A+ IN" terminal catches my attention. There seems to be 2 feeds to that and 1 feed back from "B+ OUT" wrapped in the same loom going to the left.
Leisure battery draining overnight
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Yeah that’s correct the top two are live for the solar panel and neg for solar
OK
So the remaining questions are what are the two feeds on the "A+ IN"
Where are the thin black and red option wires connected to (just visible at the right of your picture) as this seems to be a common cause of misconfiguration.
So the remaining questions are what are the two feeds on the "A+ IN"
Where are the thin black and red option wires connected to (just visible at the right of your picture) as this seems to be a common cause of misconfiguration.
You're a T6 so you should have start/stop and a smart alternator?
In which case one of those options wires should be connected - you need the red option wire connected to a +12v source to configure the CTEK to a smart alternator profile. Without that the CTEK will only be engaging in the brief moments the Alternator is fast charging your starter so you'll be getting a poor charge.
Don't connect the black wire to ground (which seems common-ish) as that will select AGM profile and slightly overcharge a normal lead acid battery (which I'm assuming yours is)
In which case one of those options wires should be connected - you need the red option wire connected to a +12v source to configure the CTEK to a smart alternator profile. Without that the CTEK will only be engaging in the brief moments the Alternator is fast charging your starter so you'll be getting a poor charge.
Don't connect the black wire to ground (which seems common-ish) as that will select AGM profile and slightly overcharge a normal lead acid battery (which I'm assuming yours is)
Okay could the reason my stop/start has recently stop working be anything to do with this
Directly no, but generally stop/start problems are because of issues in the main starter charging so those would need sorting before leisure charging.
You really need to find out where the second red lead on the A+IN goes to as it’s creating a direct feed to your starter battery. Normally you would only have one cable here taking the feed from the starter battery and as has already been said the thin red wire would be connected to an ignition live in your fuse box so the cetek knows when the engine is running and tops the leisure battery up from the alternator
It will when the alternator is running, but it will stop when the alternator stops:
Have you isolated the battery charger output from the Sargent unit?
No not yet
