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• Re: bilge pump as fresh water pump replacement
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:52:02 -0700
  ...or transformer > Cap. approx. 170 GPH > Use 3/8" I.D. discharge hose > Fully submersible > Inlet at bottom > O�all dim.: 1-1/4...
• MSW plug wires
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:26:04 CST6CDT
  ...i used them in the 70's when i was running a Delta Mark 10 C capacitive discharge ignition unit with enough energy to...
• Re: Coolant Runneth Over... Thanks!
  Historical mailing list - ThomasD. Hanlon
  Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:11:21 -0800
  ...Leaving the van undriven, I "pumped" every day for about three days, until all of the air in the system was discharged. Do this...
• Re: Inverter/Aux Battery question
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Rotblatt
  Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:15:36 -0700
  ...over > the 6 hour discharge rate. So you do not have enough battery and this > sustained load will damage it. > > Next problem is using...
• aux battery + jump starting
  Historical mailing list - Joel VanderKwaak
  Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:40:31 -0800
  ...drain the aux running the fridge, and, if the main was discharged, I'd get some help from a (hopefully charged) aux. Yesterday I...
• Re: idea?
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:20:48 -0500
  ...that is how you plan to charge 200 A/H of > discharged > battery. So unless you plan to drive a lot each day at...
• Re: Removing chrome window trim
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:25:21 -0400
  ...my earliest attendance so that I may have sufficient time to discharge, > er, perform my duties, er tasks adequately. In short, my beloved, I...
• Re: Radiator fan
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 6 Sep 2020 08:31:06 -0700
  ...I > > resorted to disconnecting the battery to shut it off and save the > > battery from deep discharge. > > > > > > > > Anyone want to weigh in on the...
• Re: is the Optima really better?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:08:54 -0700
  ...They are designed to handle over 200 discharge cycles vs 40-50 typically for a regular automotive battery. In my experience.... The Optima's...
• Re: Transporting extra gasoline on/in a Westy Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Tue, 6 Dec 2005 06:43:44 -0500
  ...Grounding, simply put, provides a path for an electric current to discharge safely -- the electricity is dissipated in the ground, when a portable fuel...
• Q: AC modification
  Historical mailing list - Tom Moritz
  Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:42:56 -0700
  ...Due to the large volume of air between the AC discharge and the front of the vehicle the coolness of the AC often does...
• oil cooler type heater?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:48:23 -0600
  ...The ideal situation would be to run the cooler ducting for interior heat in winter and divert the discharge outside in the summer months...
• Re: [retitled thread] Odyessy batteries from GoWesty, other deep cy
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:56:28 EDT
  ...I notice that few deep discharge batteries have a very long warranty - don't remember seeing longer than 3 but might have missed some...
• Re: Sure Power 1315 question
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:44:58 -0800
  ...The small 'battery tenders' or 'maintainers' are only good for just that, very small output and not enough to bring up a discharged battery...
• Re: Little problem with trickle charger
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:51:45 -0800
  ...I'd best make sure that my customers' batteries are not discharged if there is a power outage at his or her house." But...
• No Charge: HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Steve Shane
  Thu, 2 Sep 2004 07:06:13 -0700
  ...When you do that, >>instead of being in parallel with each other, they discharge through each >>other. In my case, the secondary was smaller...
• Re: Battery Woes/Choice
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Thu, 22 May 2008 22:55:08 -0700
  ...length of time. > > The figures I've heard are ideally 50% discharge, but as much as > 65%. A resting voltage of no less than...
• Upgraded house battery bank
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon
  Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:59:57 -0700
  ...It went 100% discharged and that broke it. As a result the battery didn't take much of a charge and during last summer...
• Re: Battery for 84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
  Mon, 19 May 2008 11:34:47 -0700
  ...They are designed to be cycled (discharged and charged) hundreds of times, with plates that are more robust than engine-starting batteries to withstand...
• Charge control 2 (Q&A) (long)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Sep 1995 16:42:34 -0500 (CDT)
  ...If connected to a discharged battery you will see a much lower voltage across the battery's terminals, perhaps 11 volts. But as the...
• Optima Batteries - Red Yellow or Blue?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:59:30 -0700
  ...I am at the understanding that yellow is deep cycle designed to be discharged on a repeated basis, but I am wondering about the...
• Re: +24v electrical system
  Historical mailing list - Mike Pedersen
  Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:54:19 -0800
  ...So if you tap off of one battery and discharge it, the other one takes the excess from the charging system. In other words...
• Re: Battery Woes/Choice
  Historical mailing list - Taeke
  Sun, 8 Jun 2008 06:37:36 -0400
  ...I read it would take something like 50 deep discharges before I killed the flooded battery, which will take me a while to do...
• Re: Vanagon Electrical Work and DC - AC Inverter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:26:21 -0400
  ...year ago) Even after that, when turning my inverter on to discharge it, it "beeped" and the LED light up. Using my multi meter...
• Re: Group 41 Battery at Wal-Mart
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:30:44 -0800
  ...Even though I brought the battery in a discharged state, their tester would say "it needs a charge". The battery was fully dead within...
• Erratic Idle Solution?
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:16:15 -0800
  ...The only place for the static electicity to discharge when it > builds up is through the sensors for the fuel injection system. This is...
• Re: Battery/Beckett advice wanted
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:59:20 -0700
  ...batt was checked regularly for fluid and > discharged and recharged at normal intervals (light use). > > SeanG > 95 EVC > 80 Westy > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free...
• Re: 88vanagon-missing
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:59:37 -0500
  ...or elsewhere, the electricity will always seek the easiest route to discharge. The result is a "miss". At first it begins as an intermittant...
• Re: Voltage surges
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Sat, 22 May 2010 10:16:12 -0700
  ...bring the house battery up after a few nights of self-discharge. The charger can pull as much as 15A, and appears to have...
• Re: extra precautions on fuelin up.
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:47:49 -0800
  ...It is left as an exercise for the curious to investigate ESD (electro-static discharge) precautions. I do know that when I was younger...
• Re: 4 Batteries
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 16 May 2008 23:31:33 -0400
  ...Otherwise the battery > with the higher voltage potential will discharge to the lower state of a > weaker battery. If you really need more A...
• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question - Friday Joke
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:49:40 -0600
  ...In fact, there was a story posted at a visitor center in Glacier last summer about a hiker who accidentally discharged his bear spray...
• Re: head light upgrade
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sat, 9 Jan 2010 23:11:43 -0800
  No car should have blinding lights!� But, I think you are talking about HID or High Intensity Discharge also called Xenon lights by some...
• Re: Driving/Fog Lights [long]
  Historical mailing list - jim catterson
  Fri, 7 Aug 1998 07:21:01 -0700
  ...recent invention [for cars anyway] and comes from extremely expensive gas discharge headlights that require a higher operating voltage and somewhat complicated electronics to...
• Re: Aux battery kit from Bus Depot (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - John Hurley
  Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:22:34 -0500
  ...battery has discharged, the currents flowing through the relays could possibly be extremely large. I haven't had a problem using 40 Amp relays...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:38:36 -0600
  ...a starter but not the recharging cycles of too many heavy discharges. there are some batteries called marine starting. these are a blending of...
• Re: Good pricing, T105 golf cart batteries? [EDIT}
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:41:47 -0400
  ...SCS225 130 amp-hour house battery last winter by letting it discharge down to 7 volts. I could replace it with another SCS225 for...
• Becketts Tome on Dual Batt.s, Relays, Saftey, and charging (Very Long)
  Historical mailing list - Beckett Cantrell
  Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:15:38 EDT
  ...Now lets throw our deeply discharged aux. batt. into the picture. If you've got it wired in with a chunk of thumb sized...
• Re: Cold weather
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:52:08 -0600
  ...Unless it's a "deep > > cycle" battery, then after getting fully discharged 3-4 times they won't > > hold a charge any more. If...
• Re: Battery Sages
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:25:10 -0700
  ...life > of the battery is compromised when it sits in a discharged state for any > length of time. The symptoms you describe (appears to...
• Re: Fold-a-Carrier for Westy gray water
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Thu, 7 Oct 1999 08:26:24 -0400
  ...Maybe you see this discharge as "good for the environment"... my gray water is an unsanitary slurry of pasta flakes, toothpaste spittle, egg bits...
• Re: Electronic Rust Protection?
  Historical mailing list - Ray Hunnam
  Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:18:32 +1000
  ...Also, it discharges electrons to build up on those areas where the protective coating (paint, etc.) has been damaged, thus interfering with the formation...
• Re: westy auxillary battery
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 6 Feb 1995 16:15:23 -0500
  ...m >>>Has anyone else done this? Should you use a deep discharge marine type >>>battery for the aux.? Also, is there a way to...
• Re: Battery Malfunction
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:25:48 -0700
  ...I've seen batteries die from being discharged past the point of > recovery, etc. but I don't reckon I've seen quite this...
• Re: Getting to the interior light wiring
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 17 May 2005 07:27:29 EDT
  ...Everything in the cabin is now running off this house battery so I can be confident that the engine battery does not get discharged...
• Re: Battery Woes/Choice
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 23 May 2008 05:09:52 EDT
  ...The figures I've heard are ideally 50% discharge, but as much as 65%. A resting voltage of no less than 12.2 or...
• Re: no start in 81 AC Westy
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:04:44 -0400
  ...layer on them that prevents a Good Charge & an Even Worse > > Discharge the next time they are called upon to Crank the Starter ~ So...
• Re: How hard can YOU push a Westy? fish bowl
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:53:16 EDT
  ...would slide under the passenger, and allow bodily wastes to be discharged. We had no septic system.. we just let it hit the highway...
• Onboard Battery Charger Sizing (Was: Oops.....)
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:54:35 -0700
  ...Granted this is a 100 AH battery discharged to 11.15 Volts. Thankfully the battery charged up to 13.2 Volts overnight and charger...
• Re: Why AGM batts don't last as long as they should
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:00:18 -0400
  ...After 1 month of sitting the optima >was discharged to 10V, while the wetcell was 12.1V. External >parasite current is 10-20mA, and...
• Re: doc wattson or watts up?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:42:34 -0400
  ...charge at 54 amps and continuous discharge at over 400 amps, which is to say full discharge in one minute. Burst rate is 50...
• Re: Need Someone to test a Battery Saver
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:33:09 -0500
  ...A while ago we had a battery charge / discharge discussion. I decided then to design a battery saver that would automatically shut off loads...
• Re: Camping in cold & battery
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:24:00 -0500
  ...Most of the employees at > Sams Club don't know Zip about discharge tests or batteries in general so > If I say its bad...
• Re: Why AGM batts don't last as long as they should
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:54:33 -0700
  ...You need 14.2 volts to fully charge a discharged AGM, and most alternators put out about 13 to 13.7 volts, depending on...
• Re: Adding the second battery to the early vanagon ('80)
  Historical mailing list - davidson
  Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:35:59 -0700
  ...Wednesday, October 07, 1998 8:59 PM > > The problem with just connecting the second battery in parallel is that > they both discharge at the...
• Re: Fuse Size: Aux battery to fuse block
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 9 Aug 2017 23:32:38 -0600
  ...Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> During charging or in use discharge there is no problem have two different >> size batteries connected together, especially...
• Re: Camping Battery
  Historical mailing list - Bob Bellanca
  Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:14:43 -0700
  ...Especially if that battery is often completely >discharged. He also said the deep cycle wheel chair batteries were way >expensive and heavy and I...
• Re: Optima Blue D31M
  Historical mailing list - M'obeechi
  Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:50:36 -0700
  ...Will an Optima last 4-6 times longer? Perhaps but.... > depends-on how each is used in-service and the discharge/charge cycles > the...
• Re: Dang driver lowbeam and front driver turnsignal
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Sun, 8 Jan 2017 11:20:31 -0800
  ...Batteries degrade over time, regardless of discharge rate. I noticed that the battery companies are now advertising that unopened packages of batteries should retain...
• Bad Starter??
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:57:53 -0700
  ...It is often the case that a battery when nearing the end of its useful life will finally give it up when you discharge...