Would an internal short in the battery do that?
-----Original Message----- From: Lew Hodgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 6 May 2008 2:57 pm Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] A Lesson Ashore "Norm of Bandersnatch" wrote: > Two weeks ago we discovered Jan's battery in her 240D diesel (big > battery) > car boiling when we stopped for groceries after driving for 8 hours. Just checking, did you check out the voltage regulator setting? Back in the days of vibrating contact regulators, you would be describing a stuck contact. With today's electronic regulators, sounds like it may be shorted to force full field current which will boil battery. Lew _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
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