[Mgs] First drive of the year

[Charley & Peggy Robinson]

We took our first drive on 2nd April.  Drove N to the Willow City loop, 
a ranch road famed for it wildflowers (mainly Bluebonnets & Indian 
Paintbrush) in a good year.  It was the only sunny day of the week.  The 
next sunny day here in the TX hill country was yesterday; solid overcast 
again today.  We've had lots of threatening fronts & cloud formation but 
not much net rain.

I have a solid state battery tender that was a gift some years ago. It 
puts out a max of 5A.  It has indicator leds that tell you what it's 
doing.  I found out that I have to monitor it often.  If something 
interrupts its cycle it quits charging and blinks a LED. That's happened 
now and then.  Fortunately the B is kept in my attached garage/hobby 
shop so I'm in there almost daily.

CR

On 4/16/2015 8:52 AM, PaulHunt73 via Mgs wrote:
> Conditioning chargers i.e. the ones designed to be connected long-term 
> (not the old-fashioned trickle chargers) are usually intelligent and 
> apply a charge that is relevant to the batteries needs.  If this is 
> what you have then the battery probably is dead.  Some leave them on 
> winter and summer, but they can get 'addicted' and the first night 
> away from home and the charger could fail the next morning. Unless you 
> have a drain, and that includes sophisticated alarm systems, an MGB 
> battery should be fine for a couple of months or more without being 
> used or charged.
> PaulH.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>
>     I do, but it's a battery tender, not a real 'charger'..... But for
>     some reason it did not work over the winter. But I have a feeling
>     the battery is dead, as it didn't
>     really recharge, apparently, after my short ride last week....
>     Although it was almost 2 weeks ago now, so we'll see....
>
>
>
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