I have seen this before. If your charger has a
trickle, or "maintainer" setting, you can
probably bring the gel cell back to life.
If the charger wont charge it, leave it
connected anyway for a while and the
charger may change its mind after
a few minutes. I left the lights on
a car for about a week and my charger
refused to charge, but the trickle
and wait procedure worked.
Then, if you dont
have a low rate or gel cell setting
on the charger, might want to just
trickle charge it for a few days.
Another trick is to jump it to
a good battery, and try to
get enough juice built up in it
so the charger will not refuse to
charge it.
Best Regards,
Jim
Chesapeake Va
>From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
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>Subject: Re: Dead batt-I'm a bad roadster owner
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>Dan,
>
>A gel cell, or mat battery as used in the Miata, should be charged using
>the
>"gel" setting as they need a different type of charge. It needs a low
>amperage charge over a long period of time unlike wet cell batteries.
>
>I read that tip in my Miata manual.
>
>Mike
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Daniel Neuman" <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
>To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:40 PM
>Subject: Dead batt-I'm a bad roadster owner
>
>
> > Hello All,
> > First off I have something shamefull to admit. I have not
> > driven my perfectly fine working car for like 3 months....Thats like
> > the entire summer...We have too many sensible cars now and I just
> > never want to take it out to get beat on for no good reason..
> > So this weekend we decide to take it out..The batt is dead reading
> > 8V between the terminals and the charger won't charge it. I have a
> > fancy-pants sears charger with a 'computer brain' that won't let you
> > charge up batt that are too far gone or if say you misconnect the leads
> > at 4am before leaving for shasta it will shut itself off.
> > I killed a optima yellow top batt...I think I have had it for
> > oh 3 years and was thinking that it would last a bit longer. Here's a
> > question-the optima is a gel cell deep cycle batt. My charger has a
> > setting for regular batt, gel cell, or deep cycle. Which cycle should I
> > set the charger on? I am afraid that I was charging the batt on the
>wrong
> > setting and that that contributed to its early demise.
> >
> > Daniel 69 2000
> > Oakland CA
> >
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