charger connected, hood closed?
04-30-2012, 09:21 PM
#17
I was told in a similar post sometime ago that the car is smart enough to know the bonnet is not closed and shuts of the power to the frunk light in about an hour or so and no need to remove bulb. Never stuck around at the storage unit to verify but no issues for several years.
05-01-2012, 11:21 PM
#19
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Here is what I do. Connect Battery Tender cable to the battery. Extend it. route it behind the bumper (we took the bumpers off for simplicity) and:
997 C4S: tie the connector to the bottom right hole as indicated. The plug is more than enough to keep water at bay.
Cayenne TS: Route through the toe hook area and hide behind the toe hook cover.
I leave the Tenders powered at all times and the power cable on the floor just in front of where I stop. (Laser parking devises help ensure precision parking.)
Very easy access.
The downside. Not making a sign and putting it on the windshield, driver side that the charger is plugged in and the wife borrowing the vehicle without noticing. Will be making a sign soon.
997 C4S: tie the connector to the bottom right hole as indicated. The plug is more than enough to keep water at bay.
Cayenne TS: Route through the toe hook area and hide behind the toe hook cover.
I leave the Tenders powered at all times and the power cable on the floor just in front of where I stop. (Laser parking devises help ensure precision parking.)
Very easy access.
The downside. Not making a sign and putting it on the windshield, driver side that the charger is plugged in and the wife borrowing the vehicle without noticing. Will be making a sign soon.
05-02-2012, 12:19 AM
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05-04-2012, 02:41 AM
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Here is what I do. Connect Battery Tender cable to the battery. Extend it. route it behind the bumper (we took the bumpers off for simplicity) and:
997 C4S: tie the connector to the bottom right hole as indicated. The plug is more than enough to keep water at bay.
Cayenne TS: Route through the toe hook area and hide behind the toe hook cover.
I leave the Tenders powered at all times and the power cable on the floor just in front of where I stop. (Laser parking devises help ensure precision parking.)
Very easy access.
The downside. Not making a sign and putting it on the windshield, driver side that the charger is plugged in and the wife borrowing the vehicle without noticing. Will be making a sign soon.
997 C4S: tie the connector to the bottom right hole as indicated. The plug is more than enough to keep water at bay.
Cayenne TS: Route through the toe hook area and hide behind the toe hook cover.
I leave the Tenders powered at all times and the power cable on the floor just in front of where I stop. (Laser parking devises help ensure precision parking.)
Very easy access.
The downside. Not making a sign and putting it on the windshield, driver side that the charger is plugged in and the wife borrowing the vehicle without noticing. Will be making a sign soon.
05-04-2012, 03:59 AM
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Nowhere near as dopey as what I did. Had to go on an unexpected 2-week trip and didn't have a battery tender so just disconnected the plus cable on the battery.....then closed the hood. Came back and found out you need battery power to pop the hood to reconnect the battery. Using the key or otherwise. Thanks to a thread I read here I knew about the little red terminal in the fuse box and jumped it open.
05-04-2012, 10:25 AM
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Nowhere near as dopey as what I did. Had to go on an unexpected 2-week trip and didn't have a battery tender so just disconnected the plus cable on the battery.....then closed the hood. Came back and found out you need battery power to pop the hood to reconnect the battery. Using the key or otherwise. Thanks to a thread I read here I knew about the little red terminal in the fuse box and jumped it open.
05-04-2012, 01:13 PM
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I've only had my 08C4 for one month and I've got a lot to learn, including, "how is it possible to have a battery charger connected and the hood closed"? Wouldn't the hood have to be open to let the cables through? It seems there is a way to connect a battery charger other than directly to the battery terminals. How do you do that?
Is the terminal in the fuse area involved?
Pardon my ignorance! and many thanks in advance
Is the terminal in the fuse area involved?
Pardon my ignorance! and many thanks in advance
You can't close the frunk 100%, I press it down until it latches, which gives about an inch of play for the cord. Then you are golden!
05-04-2012, 01:20 PM
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I documented another clean way to hook up a battery tender, here :
https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...ry-tender.html
https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...ry-tender.html
05-04-2012, 03:17 PM
#26
My local P dealer confirmed its the primary plug in spot for charging the battery. They do it to all their showroom cars
05-04-2012, 03:43 PM
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Note on operation
The tire filling compressor must be connected to
the cigarette lighter.
I think if you plug the compressor into the footwell socket, the fuse blows.
05-04-2012, 08:24 PM
#30
Drifting
That foot well port really should be a USB/MiniUSB/MicroUSB combo port to prevent plugging in odd things... or they just should have wired the damn thing to not blow when you use the air pump. Thats just a recipe for repeated blowing of that fuse. Or maybe a manually reset-able circuit breaker at that footwell socket rather than burning through a car fuse.