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jedi vehicle charger
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 1:41 pm
by 2wayguy
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?
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:49 pm
by 70351
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
jedi charger
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:52 pm
by 2wayguy
That would be a great option, can you share the info on how to install the switch??
Re: Jedi Charger
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:52 pm
by ESDA20
I'm going to get kicked for saying this...
... But perhaps the force is not strong with your charger.
*ducks the tomatos*
jedi
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:56 pm
by 2wayguy
you are correct, the force "sucks" on this charger
Trickle Charge Switch
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:52 am
by cranbiz
Yes, Please post with this info. Same problem here!
Bob
jedi
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:44 pm
by 2wayguy
Hey Randy any luck with the info on that switch you mentioned??
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:21 pm
by 70351
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
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:05 pm
by motor59
Don't suppose you'd care to document the jumper installs, would ya?
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:59 am
by Wes
Please pass along the wiring diagram for that!!!!!!!!
That would be very helpful.........
Wes