Get a new battery, you've been on borrowed time for 5 years now and if
your battery is shot,
the charging sytem won't work properly. Charging systems maitain good
batteries, they won't
fix shot ones.
john.kahoon@juno.com
71 midget
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:59:12 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Boatright
<jboatri@emory.edu> writes:
>My charging system may have packed it in, too. The battery seemed to
>not be
>holding a charge for the last month. I was putting it on a 6 amp
>trickle
>charger on the weekends until I could get out from under my next
>deadline
>(last one of the year, hurray!). On this charger, as the batter
>charges,
>the amp meter drops from 5 (for instance) to down around 1. Yesterday,
>even
>with a 4 hour charge, the car would not start. I jumped it off my
>wife's
>car and went for a drive (at night, of course. Can't be too smart
>about
>this stuff). The lights dimmed a lot (much more than they used too) at
>idle. Also, the rpms had to be much higher before the charging light
>would
>go out. Upon returning, I disconnected the battery from the car and
>connected it to the charger again. The amp meter started at around 2
>and
>then went UP! This morning it was at 5. I've never seen this before.
>Is all
>of this just a dead battery? It's a 5-year battery on it's eleventh
>year...
>
>Is there a website that goes into charging system diagnosis? The
>Haynes
>manual just says to take the car to a specialist at a service center.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>
>Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
>Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Vision
>http://www.emory.edu/molvis
>"Seeing the Future in a Very Tiny Way"
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