Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:39:30 -1000
Reply-To: Scott <SCOTTDANIEL@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott <SCOTTDANIEL@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Battery question, nvc, but could be
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Dear Dunce..
not good for batteries to drain them to nothing of course.
all you can do is charge it up and see what happens.
if it's a good battery with outright replacement for a year or two ..
you're in good shape.
the ones I buy have 2 years of outright replacement ..
I don't get to keep them all that well charged up ..( I run like a dozen
batteries in cars or vans )
I can tell when one isn't so good ..
like it'll only sit for say 10 days ( after charging )( and no more,
and then won't start a car ...any decent battery will do much better
than that.
where I buy them they have a very smart tester device..
I've had many replaced for free that way, no questions.
nice to hear that Costco sounded helpful.
personally I'll always pay more for quality and good service.
here's a real Dunce story for you ..
I had a pesoon ( it's not cool to say the person's gender..but it was
not a man ) drive a rare Toyota pick-up with diesel engine with two
batteries to my shop to work on it.
totally dead ..
drive it to my shop, then shut it off out in the yard ..
and tell me it was there.
took me about an hour jump starting with TWO running cars to get that
Toyota where I could work on it and out of the middle of a shared
parking lot.
pretty thoughtless and clueless if you ask me ! Poor humans. They could
do SO much better ! lol
On 08/13/2016 08:13 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
> Thanks, I've put the solar panel on them...
> I just called Costco, where I bought these Interstate batts in April... I
> can't find the receipt, but they said "no problem, bring em in, we'll give
> you replacements".... Costco is a couple hours away, though, and swapping
> these will take a day...with the trip, so if they're going to "come back
> ok". ..rather not go through that...
>
> On Aug 13, 2016 10:46 AM, "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It might harm them a little but not kill them. Charge them back as slowly
>> as you can, not as quickly. There's a lot to be undone internally and it
>> takes time.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 12:09 PM Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can complete discharge of brand new batteries kill em? Did I just blow
>>> $160
>>> bucks by leaving the key on in my recently revived diesel? The truck
>>> (f250
>>> powerstroke Ford) got two Interstate batts. I found it this morning
>>> without even enough electrons to move anything on the gauges or light the
>>> warning lights...Deader than a doornail! I'm now charging them, or
>>> trying. Put a digital meter on each, before I hooked it up...read
>>> 0.02v....with my battery charger on "manual- 10 amp" my meter is reading
>>> 12.00v... I am an electrical dunce, BTW...
>>>
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