When the internal battery failed earlier this year, I got a lead acid battery that could run the X's drive off the car adapter. This came from the local battery store. I now suspect that the external battery was dead or nearly dead, when I did my bum transfer.
For the electronically minded -
I have only a simple charger for this battery (transformer with attachment to fit on the battery). There's no 'fully charged" light or anything like that. (No lights at all.) The transformer has 12v, 500 milli amp output, the battery is 12v, 2.3 amps. (2300 milliamps). How long should it take to charge? The guy at the store just said "charge it overnight whenever you use it." I've had it charging for 36 hours now and it seems OK, but it did not seem to have a lot of juice after about 12 hours of charging yesterday morning. I'm basing that on the X's drive battery meter - when hooked up to this external battery it now shows a full charge - 4 of 4 dots on the battery charge indicator. On Sunday when it failed it only showed a small charge (2 of 4 dots) and yesterday morning it showed 3 of 4 dots.
The battery does say that it should never be completely drained, and I suspect I came close to doing that (it still had _some_ juice in it because it could power the LED on the car adaptor for the X's drive.) Are lead acid batteries ruined if they are completely discharged? What if they are almost completely discharged? :-0
Thanks -
MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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