[Shotimes] Battery Swap

[Adam Parrott]

Also make sure that you place a load on the engine via the accessories
while it's idling.  According to popular belief, you typically want to do
this within the first 30 seconds of idle.  Flip on MAX A/C or defrost, work
the power steering and flip on your headlights to load down the engine.
Doing this should help speed up the "relearning" process.

Adam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Childs" <rbchilds@pacbell.net>
To: <MonsieurBoo@aol.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Battery Swap


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