[Shotimes] Battery Swap

[Ron Childs]

Resetting the computer is just a matter of turning everything off and letting the
computer learn the idle for a couple of minutes the first time you start it. The
idle will hang around 2K and slowly come down to normal. After that, you should be
good to go.

-Ron Childs  '91

--- MonsieurBoo@aol.com wrote:
> Time for a new battery, first time I've changed one where the owner's manual sez I
> gotta drive a certain way for a certain length of time to reset the computer once
> it loses volts.  Don't wanna do that.  Any reason I can't take my spare battery
> and plug it into the lighter socket (matching the polarity so it's connected in
> parallel) before swapping my in-car battery with the new one?
> 
> Seems to me with the car not running, the current flow will basically only go to
> keep the 'puter alive and won't overload the wiring to the lighter.
> 
> Anything major wrong with this picture?  Is it like too "duh" to even ask this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark LaBarre
> 94 ATX 125k
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