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Re: Pulse chargers / parasitic voltage loss

To: "PJ McGarvey" <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com>, shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Pulse chargers / parasitic voltage loss
From: doug@dougbraun.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:34:55 -0500
At 02:10 PM 1/17/2006 -0500, PJ McGarvey wrote:



>After talking to Pulsetech, they explained that parasitic voltage drain might 
>make keeping the battery fully charged unavoidable.  


Did you mean to say  "After talking to Pulsetech, they explained that parasitic 
current drain
might make keeping the battery fully charged impossible"?

If your battery goes dead after a week of non-driving, you have a serious 
current drain somewhere.  You should
get a meter that measures current, and track it down.  It should be quick to 
find by pulling fuses, without
having to sit around and wait to see how long the battery takes to go dead.  
You would
disconnect a battery cable and connect the meter between the cable and the 
battery terminal.

Also, if your battery is regularly going dead, it may already have gotten 
harmed or ruined by all
that deep discharging.

Doug Braun




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