Carbon Guy
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- 24 Nov 2015
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Hi all
i hope everyone had a nice Christmas!
i have recently bought a CTEK MXS 5.0 for my 981 but i seem to having a problem with it getting to charge all the way. I am connecting to the car via the 12V cigarette lighter in the passenger foot-well, once connected the CTEK works fine and analyses the battery and starts charging, however after about 30 minutes or so the CTEK changes to a standby mode as if it was not connected to the car.
From reading other related post i know that the problem is most likely coming from the car going into a power saving mode and cutting the power to the 12V outlet what in turn stops the CTEK from working.
Has anyone else had this problem or know how to keep the 12V outlets in the car to say on?
i have also spoken to Porsche as they sell the same product hoping to find a solution, ( http://www.design911.co.uk/fu/prod4306/Charger---Battery-Maintainer-Original-Porsche/ ) unfortunately they were unsure why it wasn't charging as they say it should just work one plunged in.
i hope everyone had a nice Christmas!
i have recently bought a CTEK MXS 5.0 for my 981 but i seem to having a problem with it getting to charge all the way. I am connecting to the car via the 12V cigarette lighter in the passenger foot-well, once connected the CTEK works fine and analyses the battery and starts charging, however after about 30 minutes or so the CTEK changes to a standby mode as if it was not connected to the car.
From reading other related post i know that the problem is most likely coming from the car going into a power saving mode and cutting the power to the 12V outlet what in turn stops the CTEK from working.
Has anyone else had this problem or know how to keep the 12V outlets in the car to say on?
i have also spoken to Porsche as they sell the same product hoping to find a solution, ( http://www.design911.co.uk/fu/prod4306/Charger---Battery-Maintainer-Original-Porsche/ ) unfortunately they were unsure why it wasn't charging as they say it should just work one plunged in.