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Re: [Help] Eating up car batteries Do you happen to leave any consumer plugged in? GPS, sat radio, cell charger...? Car batteries are not made to do anything more than deliver a high current for 1 second. |
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 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
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HarperLand | Nope, canceled satellite, too expensive, GPS is woefully out of date, I use my phone.
In terms of driving, mostly city, 15-20ms each way, 5 days a week. |
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| Look for a shitty ground to the chassis and check the connectors to the alternator for corrosion or heat damage? Foci had these problems for that year. |
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guppy_fishPremium
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said by elwoodblues:driving, mostly city, 15-20ms each way, 5 days a week.
This is your problem, with a standard alternator, your looking at best case about 200 watt hrs or about 20% put back in. This will lead to cronic undercharging and sulfation of the battery plates. If you can use a trickle charger to keep the battery fully charged |
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Does your car have any alarm system? Even a factory system is a parasitic drain over time if the car isn't given enough time to charge the battery in normal use.
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BobAccount deleted
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said by guppy_fish:said by elwoodblues:driving, mostly city, 15-20ms each way, 5 days a week.
This is your problem, with a standard alternator, your looking at best case about 200 watt hrs or about 20% put back in. This will lead to cronic undercharging and sulfation of the battery plates. If you can use a trickle charger to keep the battery fully charged I drove 6 minutes to and from the train station for a decade, and my battery lasted just fine. |
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| That really depends on the sizing of the charging system and a few other variables.
It may be his problem, but it's not possible to say until other possibilities are eliminated, or this one is confirmed in some way.
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