Hi Don, If i may add one thing here to Geno's great tips. if you are concerned about the battery dieing because of seldom use of a vehicle, Just disconnect the negative terminal. Because you break the current when doing this, there will be no drain from anything. So when you reconnect the terminal the battery will be ready to go. HTH Roger C Bachelder 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 11:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Batteries: Car's/Van's Geno, some good tips here, thanks for sending them along. I bet working with triple A, you here about just all kinds of auto battery problems. Regards Don ----- Original Message ----- From: Geno69 To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:20 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Batteries: Car's/Van's I just thought , in not reading all the pieces to the battery issue. A few suggest hints might been order. A: After a battery starts getting in years. This depending on the type of battery. If the car or van or truck is not being used . Like sitting for a two to three week period and especially sitting a month or more. A: if there is instruments hooked up in the dash-board to the battery (older models) the battery is being used by these instruments. B: on the new modern cars, Vans and trucks, especially true with all the instruments hooked up. What is suggested is every three days run the unit for a half period to keep the battery in top working condition. During the winter time it is every other day run it for a half hour. If not using and don't want to bother with turning on the unit and running it for period of time, because, the price of gas. Especially if going to sit for a long period of time. This means a month or more. First off make sure that the gas tank is full and dropping as suggested or recommended dry gas to the full tank of gas. Then disconnect and remove the battery and place on a wooden block away from a cement wall and keep off a cement floor! Keeping it in a semi warm or warm room When ready can take it back out and install and of course some of the instruments will have to be reset. The two cables and the clamps that go on the positive and negative poles should be wrapped up with something that won't attract moisture, keeping them dry. Sometimes even suggesting Vaseline. If one doesn't know how to do this task, then, either find someone that does for removing or and installing the battery. If not leave well enough alone. Just know one will need to have a jump start. If there is white power around the positive and negative poles this means that they need to be cleaned and there might be other issues to look at. Again if a person knows what to do. Removing the clamps and cleaning them and the poles or some clamps to clamp and fasten too. A simple thing as baking soda and little water can clean the battery and the connecter clamps. Sometimes recommend a light course sand paper to clean. Just a thought. Geno [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
