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Re: Interesting problem

To: Don Mathis <donmathis@lucent.com>, mgs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Interesting problem
From: Carol <car@texas.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:16:03 -0500
At 10:55 AM 9/29/97 -0400, Don Mathis wrote:
>I did not drive my MGA for about 9 days.  When I attempted to start it
>yesterday, the battery was dead.  The battery is 2 months old.  I took off
>the negative ground and placed a ammeter between the lead and the negative
>battery post.  It read 128 ma.  Somewhere I have a semi-short!  Any ideas
>how one should logically, find this?  Thanks-

Weren't you having to use a battery charger to get the battery strong
enough to honk the horn just a week or so ago?? 

So, apparently the problem is not a NEW one??! Curious....

Carol


As I recall:

Carol replied to Don:
 
>>My solution was a good 5 hours on the charger.

>Sounds like a lot of trouble to go to just to honk the horn. Why not just
>start the car and then honk?

Don replied:


> guess one could question why one wants to honk the horn in the garage with
>he motor off!!! What was one doing when one first discovered that?  I think
> was just checking to see if the horn still honked!!  Look, if I was
>normal, I wouldn't have one of these things!  Good question, though.


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