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Re: [T3] Road trip! Battery woes?


On 6 Jun 2001, at 19:39, Dave Hall wrote:

> If the battery hasn't had much cycling for a time, a better way to get it
> back into use is gentle charge for several hours or a day or two.  Sudden
> recharging at 20 Amps, which is probably what happened once out on the road,
> is not good.

You're right in general, but in this case I had driven that car quite a 
bit just one week earlier with no problems. The car HAD come up 
dead a number of months ago after months of non-use, but I fixed 
that by putting it on a long slow charge for about 10 days which 
seemed to cure it.

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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