For most of us, charging our deep cycle batteries in our cars, vans, 4x4s or SUVs is mostly done while driving or by using solar power at camp. However adding a 240v battery charger to your 12v camping gear setup has massive benefits that many people wouldn’t even consider. Here at 4WD Supacentre we retail a large range of CTEK battery charging gear including many of CTEK’s 240v battery chargers. If you camp somewhere that has access to a powerpoint, then a 240v battery charger will be one of the best bits of camping gear that you ever invest in. Here’s four surprising benefits of a 240v battery charger that you’ll use every time you go camping!

1.POWER YOUR ENTIRE CAMPSITE AS WELL AS CHARGING YOUR BATTERIES
Battery chargers don’t just charge batteries when you’re plugged in to a powered campsite! A quality battery charger with decent ‘reserve’ capacity has the ability to act like a power supply for your entire campsite, converting 240v power to 12v power to run your portable fridge, LED camp lights, inverters, the lot. When we say ‘reserve’ capacity, we mean a charger with at least 15A charging capacity like the CTEK M200 or M300 battery chargers. They’ll top your batteries right up but they’ll also be able to supply power to everything you want to run at the same time. That means you’ll be able to watch the footy on your telly through your sat dish, let the kids power their portable DVD players via the inverter AND keep all the fridges and lights on at the same time!

2.SAY GOODBYE TO ‘BATTERY STRESS’ FOREVER
This one’s for anyone who has ever watched their battery voltage dwindle and anyone who has ended up a little hot under the collar as a result. Battery stress is real and it effects thousands of campers every single weekend! If you watch your voltage drop to 11.5v, then 11.0v, then 10.5v, you’ll know how stressful it can be trying to keep your campsite powered without killing your deep cycle battery. If you’ve got a battery charger then those stresses simply disappear – just plug it into a 240v power socket and let it do its magic! There really is nothing like checking your battery voltage and seeing that it’s sitting at a beautiful 14.0v+ even while the fridges, lights and the kids’ portable DVD players are all running.

3.BRING NEARLY-DEAD BATTERIES BACK TO LIFE
On many of the CTEK range of 240v battery chargers, there’s a ‘recondition’ mode that is worth its weight in gold. When batteries, particularly deep-cycle batteries, get deeply discharged and fall below 10.5v, they run the risk of permanent damage. The CTEK battery chargers that have a recondition mode can, for brief periods of time, supply extra voltage to the battery to bring it back from the dead. We’ve personally witnesses a range of CTEK battery chargers bring multiple batteries back to life, paying for themselves every time! When you consider that the average battery starts around $150 and can easily be up over $300, that’s serious money you’d save if you could save a battery from the scrap heap.

4.CAMP IN COMFORT REGARDLESS OF THE WEATHER
Solar power is incredible and everyone should have some sort of Adventure Kings solar power setup on their rig. The sun literally provides free power that can keep your deep cycle battery topped up whenever you’re around camp. If you hard-mount a solar panel to your roof rack or to the top of your roof top tent then it can be constantly powering your dual battery the entire time too. However solar power obviously depends on the sun, and if you end up camping on a less-than-perfect weekend in terms of weather then your solar panel isn’t going to be anywhere near as effective as it would be on a sunny day. A battery charger completely takes away the battery stress that stems from solar panels not performing in average weather by letting you power your entire campsite even while it’s pouring down with rain. That’s a win in our books!

4WD Supacentre has a price-match guarantee on the entire range of the incredible CTEK battery chargers. That means if you can find a better genuine price anywhere in Australia, we’ll match it! Terms and conditions apply, see https://www.4wdsupacentre.com.au/terms#ctek.