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Date:         Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:25:48 -0700
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: Battery Malfunction
Comments: To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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On 1/12/05 6:44 PM, "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM> wrote:

> Sometime whilst my van has been sitting up with its mortally wounded tranny, > it spontaneously developed a short (presumably just to spite me) and drained > the battery-not completely, as I still had some power, just not enough to turn > the engine over. I discovered this while I was attempting my weekly > maintenance start-and-run a couple of weeks ago. Ok, my fault for not > disconnecting the cables between runs, I guess. Charged the battery up well, > engine fired right up, ran it for a while, shut it down, disconnected the > cables this time. Came next weekend, hook up the battery, no joy. Charged it > up and put the meter on it. I had a good charge, but the voltage was dropping > before my eyes. Hooked it up while it still had enough juice, ran it, > disconnected it. > Went out today, the voltage was 12.06. Put the charger on it, get it up to > 12.78, starts dropping again. 12.77, 76, 75 and so on, about once per second. > The battery is under warranty and hasn't even hit the prorate period yet, so > that's no biggie. I'm just wondering what happened to it just for my own > edification. I've seen batteries die from being discharged past the point of > recovery, etc. but I don't reckon I've seen quite this thing before- anybody > wanna take a stab at it? > > Cya, > Robert > > Take it in for its warrantee replacement. When working in the FLAPS we would see 1 out of about 100 come back like that. It usually means a bad plate that has started to separate and is now an internal load rather than a storage area. The mfr told us that that usually was a battery that was dropped during transport or handling.

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• jimt Planned insanity is best. Remember that sanity is optional. http://www.tactical-bus.info (tech info) http://www.westydriver.com


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