jedi vehicle charger

2wayguy · Post by **2wayguy** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 1:41 pm

I have a jedi mobile charger in a crown vic. Everytime you start the car, the charger goes from trickle to rapid charge. It is cooking the heck out of the battery. It has been rewired numerous different ways to try and fix it with no luck. Any constructive ideas?

70351 · Post by **70351** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:49 pm

I have a Jedi MTVA in my Crown Vic and experienced the same thing as you. I installed a switch on the MTVA that would make it trickle-charge only, or operate normally. I had been noticing the rapid charger would engage every time I'd put the radio in the cradle, and the battery was getting rather warm for my liking. That's when I got the idea to install a small switch to allow normal charging or trickle charging only. Now I just leave it in the trickle charge position and it works great.

Randy

2wayguy · Post by **2wayguy** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:52 pm

That would be a great option, can you share the info on how to install the switch??

ESDA20 · Post by **ESDA20** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:52 pm

I'm going to get kicked for saying this...

... But perhaps the force is not strong with your charger.

*ducks the tomatos*

2wayguy · Post by **2wayguy** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:56 pm

you are correct, the force "sucks" on this charger

cranbiz · Post by **cranbiz** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:52 am

Yes, Please post with this info. Same problem here!

Bob

2wayguy · Post by **2wayguy** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:44 pm

Hey Randy any luck with the info on that switch you mentioned??

70351 · Post by **70351** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:21 pm

Oh man, I didn't see this topic again until just now! Sorry about the long delay but I totally forgot about this one!

Basically what I did was use the existing Pac/RT switch on the top of the MTVA, and isolated the switch from the main circuitry (I cut the traces). I located the charging circuit section on the board and soldered some jumpers to connect the rapid-charging circuit to one side of the switch, and jumpered the other position of the switch so it would trickle-charge when placed in that position. Once I located the appropriate circuitry on the main board it was just a matter of soldering the jumpers from the switch to the correct spots on the circuit board. It took some doing but it works nicely. One position only trickle-charges, and the other postion rapid-charges, then goes to trickle once charged (normal operation). Like I said before, I just leave the switch in the trickle-charge position since I hated the MTVA going to rapid-charge every time I'd drop my HT1000 in there. Trickle-charge is the way to go for me!

Again, sorry for the late reply!!

Randy

motor59 · Post by **motor59** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:05 pm

Don't suppose you'd care to document the jumper installs, would ya?

Wes · Post by **Wes** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:59 am

Please pass along the wiring diagram for that!!!!!!!!

That would be very helpful.........

Wes

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