"Battery Meltdown" or "Po

[cobram@Channel1.Com (Cobram)]

 -=> Paul Royal illuminates us with <=-

                <story of dead battery deleted>

 PR> be lively. If anybody has any experience with the instant dead
 PR> battery I'd like to hear the circumstances or whatever else you've got
 PR> to offer in the way of charging system advice or whatever.  Thanks much

     I drove the 5KS for a year with a known dead cell in the
     battery, since the car started with half a turn of the
     key, it was never a problem.  But when the battery finally
     did "go" it seemed it had gone "all of a sudden". If I
     hadn't checked it with the load tester, I would never
     had known it was bad. The battery was a true 12 volts
     until a load was applied to it, then the load tester
     would take a nosedive into the red zone.
     Did the hydrometer test, and according to the hydrometer
     test, all cells were fine under no load. But after a load
     test the hydrometer would indicate a bad cell. So, to
     get an accurate portrait of the actual condition of
     your battery, it seems the hydrometer test should be
     performed after a load test.  A good resistence battery
     tester/charging system unit only costs about $50, and
     you wonder how you got along without it after you buy one.

     BCNU,

     '90 V8Q
     '84 5KS

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