[s-cars] Need list wisdom.

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

Correction:
My car got 9 years out of the factory battery.

I got one year before I deemed that battery inferior.

Joe "test engineer" Pizzo

--- Mark Strangways <strangconst at rogers.com> wrote:
> You got 9 years out of the factory battery, you dog
> !!!
> Damn, I can't get 9 years outta anything !
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joseph Pizzimenti" <pizzoman at yahoo.com>
> To: "Mark Strangways" <strangconst at rogers.com>;
> "S-CAR at audifans.com"
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> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Need list wisdom.
> 
> 
> > Purchase Optima Red Top.
> >
> > I had some starting/cranking issues with the 9
> year
> > old stock battery, but once I put the red top
> under
> > the rear seats, nothing but good strong starts.
> >
> > Pizzo
> >
> > --- Mark Strangways <strangconst at rogers.com>
> wrote:
> > > Ok, just back from a long drive ( like 3 hrs).
> > > Car ran fine as much power as I could use in the
> > > snow storm. But once to my
> > > destination, the car had to be boosted.
> > > So I tried to be a could responsible power user
> and
> > > conserve on the way
> > > home, no heated seats, no stereo, no fogs.etc.
> > > And once again caught home, and no start.
> > >
> > > I did measure voltages before shutting down. At
> idle
> > > it was around 13.8
> > > volts.
> > > Turning on accessories dropped it to 13.5 but
> that
> > > was with everything on
> > > and at idle.
> > > What worries me a bit is the fact that instead
> of
> > > increasing with revs the
> > > voltage actually decreased with more revs.
> > > This is odd, kinda tells me my car has been
> reading
> > > the tread about new
> > > alternators and such.
> > > Any collective thoughts ?
> > > What is NORMAL idle voltage and what does it
> climb
> > > to say at 3000 RPM ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Mark S
> > >
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