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  • Re: Speaking of batteries...
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Wed, 19 Apr 1995 22:58:39 -0700 (PDT)
    ...During discharge, H+ ions react with the lead(IV) oxide to give lead(II)oxide and water; PbO2 + 2H+ + 2e- -> PbO + H2O the reaction...
  • Re: Can someone tell me how to remove the window washer jets?
    Historical mailing list - John Andersen
    Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:35:26 -0700
    ...It can also be used to move the little ball around to change the direction of the discharge. John
  • Re: fuel line shield?
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:50:06 -0700
    Dear Hoser (washingmachine discharge?? not that kind of hoser ) (for those who remember Bob and Doug MacKenzie ) Washing machine and dishwasher discharge hose offers...
  • Re: Battery current limiting device??
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 21 May 1996 00:00:04 -0400
    ...The discharged battery can draw a very heavy >current load until battery voltage comes up. Something in the order >of 30, 60, or even...
  • Re: Optima Battery
    Historical mailing list - Ian Allan
    Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:37:38 -0500
    ...Any battery will fail (although usually not explode or crack) with discharge or overcharge abuse. We recommend that our customers be aware of the...
  • Re: Can a battery terminal clamp cause a battery to discharge?
    Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
    Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:26:21 -0400
    mordo, The only thing I can think of that remotely approximates battery clamp problems is a layer of grime on top of the battery...
  • Fire Suppression Solutions
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:58:12 -0500
    ...Additionally, there was plumbing on the ceiling with discharge points into the room. This plumbing was connected to a bank of Halon cylinders, each...
  • Re: Can a battery terminal clamp cause a battery to discharge?
    Historical mailing list - Cullen Stewart
    Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:47:06 -0400
    ...Can a battery terminal clamp cause a battery to discharge? > Before I write off the friendly Advance Auto employee as a nitwit, I'll...
  • Re: Electrical discharging a capacitor
    Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
    Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:52:10 -0700
    ...Electrical discharging a capacitor Anybody know how to safely discharge a capacitor? Playing with another small ac unit and they have a capacitor (110v...
  • Re: PS pump pressure testing?
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:11:53 -0500
    Just start reducing that one square inch down to the actual size of the discharge line size and you're looking at about 160...
  • Re: Electrical discharging a capacitor
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sat, 2 Jul 2005 19:56:31 -0500
    ...John Rdogers 88 GL Driver Doug in Calif wrote: >Anybody know how to safely discharge a capacitor? > >Playing with another small ac unit and...
  • Re: VoltMinder-Is it a good thing?
    Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
    Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:25:46 -0500
    ...A partly discharged charging battery can easily measure 11 VDC or less depending on the output of your alternator, the battery's state and...
  • Re: "Blue light" incidents..NVC..
    Historical mailing list - Miguel Pacheco
    Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:44:49 -0500
    Mike, I had a similar experience which resulted in a dishonorable discharge from the Boy scouts. I've worn this like a badge of...
  • Re: acceptable way to discharge A/C at home?
    Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
    Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:11:24 EST
    Hi All, Do we have any professional auto air conditioning experts on the list? What equipment is necessary to do one's own air...
  • Re: Alternators and batteries-Optima
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:55:55 +0000
    ...These batteries do not withstand multiple complete discharges well and they require special charging curves for recovery after a deep discharge. Not practical for...
  • Auxillary battery alternative
    Historical mailing list - paul banks
    Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:04:47 -0400
    ...Thus, both batteries are charged and discharged together. I have never had a problem with running out of power for starting or at the...
  • Re: Auxiliary Battery Installation II: Hawker Odyssey battery; need for higher amp relay
    Historical mailing list - Chris Earl
    Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:33:05 -0400
    ...This has worked successfully, even with a deeply discharged battery. One note: The Chargetek charger only works if the battery is holding 9.5...
  • Re: replacement fridge?
    Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
    Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:23:50 -0700
    ...In real world terms, the battery would be 90% discharged after about 5-6 hours. A regular starter battery would handle this type of...
  • Re: Subject: Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty(NVC)
    Historical mailing list - Brian McClure
    Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:16:56 EST
    ...The great thinkers have decided to water the course with the Effluent (discharge) from the Sewage treatmeant plant up the street!! I cant wait...
  • Re: Halon Extinguishers, etc.
    Historical mailing list - James S. Cohen
    Sat, 11 Nov 2000 16:44:12 -0500
    ...Too many things can go wrong with an automatic system INCLUDING accidental discharge. OR even no discharge when there is a fire. It would...
  • Re: Re[2]: Stupid questions
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 11 May 1997 21:57:24 -0700
    ...So you won't discharge the battery. Makes it kind of silly to add in the second battery, since it doesn't run the...
  • For Canucks Only -what kind of battery?
    Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:54:25 -0800
    is used for the auxillary battery in the back of an '80 vanagon? None of the local vendors show anything in deep discharge that...
  • Batteries don't die, they get murdered
    Historical mailing list - David Etter
    Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:07:07 -0700
    ...avoid data such as "DISCHARGE and CHARGE RATES, DEPTH OF DISCHARGE". They know that if we believed batteries required far more care than their...
  • Re: Group 41 Battery at Wal-Mart
    Historical mailing list - Jack R.
    Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:14:14 -0500
    What really kills a "starting" battery is not recharging it promptly after a deep discharge. And, if that same battery happens to "freeze" in...
  • Re: was Odyssey batteries, now Costco group 41
    Historical mailing list - Trooz
    Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:42:08 -0700
    ...It is > critical to make > sure that this battery doesn't stay dead if discharged, that > is the hardest > thing on a battery. The...
  • Re: Battery cables
    Historical mailing list - Marvin Westenburg
    Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:44:14 -0500
    ...Battery cables >At 06:49 PM 8/1/98 -0500, Marvin Westenburg wrote: >>And you're right--a >>discharged house battery would discharge the...
  • Re: Can a battery terminal clamp cause a battery to discharge?
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:46:14 -0400
    When I wrote, "Well, this was on the car when I bought it" I meant that the battery and not so tight clamp were...
  • Re: How Long Running to Charge the Battery After Starting?
    Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
    Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:05:29 -0400
    It has been my experience that an alternator can not fully charge a battery after it has been significantly discharged . Generally it requires an...
  • Spanish help /Andrew is right
    Historical mailing list - Javier Zavala
    Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:26:40 -0500
    ...to adjust the valves� gap; if the lifters have to be discharged to adjust them and which would be the correct setting. I already...
  • batteries: some more general info ...
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Mon, 02 May 94 16:32:24 CDT
    ...It will typically lose half of its capacity after 50 discharge-recharge cycles. (A heavy discharge is one that removes all but 20 percent...
  • Re: CO2 versus Halon: FIRE!!!!!!
    Historical mailing list - Joe L.
    Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:09:10 -0500
    If you added up all the "damage" to the ozone layer due to Halon Discharge I wonder if it would come close to the...
  • Re: Batteries don't die, they get murdered
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:28:33 -0500
    ...Not to argue with what David wrote, but Odyssey claims 400 cycles to 100% depth of discharge. Maybe "100% depth of discharge" has a...
  • RE: Help installtion Aux.battery 1985 westy
    Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
    Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:13:47 -0700
    ...What happens when a discharged battery is connected across a fully charged battery? Even if bad things don't happen because of high currents...
  • Re: Some potentially stupid questions
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:50:58 -0500
    ...However, large quantities from commercial or fleet maintenance programs will upset the plant's biological system and are prohibited. > > Any anti-freeze discharge directly...
  • Another @#$% deep cycle battery question!!
    Historical mailing list - Jason M. Yasment
    Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:42:17 -0000
    ...1) Can you charge and discharge a deep cycle battery at the same time? Ex. Have a solar panel charging the battery while the...
  • Re: Morning Gnarliness: how to deal with
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:58 -0400
    At 12:20 PM 8/31/2009, Melissa Mourkas wrote: >I can't believe we are still talking about this! I can! Overboard discharge...
  • Re: Fire!
    Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
    Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:51:22 -0500
    ...This extinguisher discharges a rapidly evaporating liquid (HydroChloroFluoroCarbon) that leaves no residue. The liquid extinguishes Class C fires without conducting electricity back to the...
  • RE: ammeters
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 23 Feb 95 13:27:00 MST
    ...The problem that you are having is the result of having to put the gauge in the charge/discharge circuit. The posts have rightly...
  • Fire Suppression Solutions 2
    Historical mailing list - Myers, Thomas A
    Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:42:48 -0400
    ...Additionally, there was plumbing on the ceiling with discharge points into the room. This plumbing was connected to a bank of Halon cylinders, each...
  • Re: Fw: Deep Cycle Batts.. A Journey
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:10:06 -0800
    ...A battery will not discharge to the earth. It needs some connection between both the positive and negative terminals. If both connect to the...
  • Re: Inverters
    Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
    Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:56:24 -0700
    ...Four weeks ago I left the 12/120 inverter ON without any load. >> Four days later my two batteries were almost totally discharged! I...
  • Re: Those blue xenon HID headlight bulbs all over ebay
    Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
    Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:02:58 -0500
    Blue light (not tinted bulbs) is a higher intensity energy discharge, but that doesn't translate to meaning you'll see better in its...
  • Re: Halon Extinguishers, etc.
    Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
    Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:35:18 -0800
    ...We were talking about an automatic Halon system that would discharge in the engine compartment while you are driving. In that event, if you...
  • Re: Electrical discharging a capacitor
    Historical mailing list - jimt
    Sat, 2 Jul 2005 08:18:20 -0600
    ...place I once worked the Mac guys had a tool to > discharge the cap for the CRT in the iMacs they worked on. Looked...
  • Re: Flooded Cell Deep Cycle Battery De-sulphation. Risky?
    Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
    Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:43:44 -0600
    ...When a battery is left in some state of discharge for a while, or discharged below its recovery voltage, then maybe equalizing will help...
  • Re: Was 2nd battery relay system; now Voltmeter
    Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
    Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:13:01 -0800
    ...I like analog meters because a glance tells a fellow what's going on, charge/discharge-wise. During the day, when the panels are...
  • Re: Little blue lights
    Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
    Wed, 9 Dec 1998 23:56:40 -0700
    ...they really light up the night? Joe, These are high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps, quite bright. Get an aftermarket set at JCWhitney, last time...
  • Re: Bosch injector
    Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
    Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:22:57 -0500
    ...Ken Lewis http://neksiwel.20m.com/ ----- Original Message ----- > How do they fire? Pulses per ignition discharge? is it a dwell? This is the > question...
  • Re: Leak from LPG auto-stop valve's discharge port?
    Historical mailing list - Florian Speier
    Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:24:58 -0700
    Mike, replace it now. I just spent two nervous hours in a gas station with an auto stop valve stuck open after filling hoping...
  • Re: LVC adding LED interior lighting
    Historical mailing list - Mike S
    Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:37:39 -0400
    ...I'd expect that they have a constant-current regulator, to maintain the output as the batteries discharge.
  • NiMH batteries for camping? Was: Re: Batteries don't die, they get murdered
    Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
    Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:57:12 -0700
    ...Advantages are better power to weight ratio and (I believe) up to 500 deep (near 100%) discharge cycles. I'm wondering if NiMH would...
  • Re: Deep cycle battery - 85 Home Made Westfalia
    Historical mailing list - pensioner
    Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:51:37 -0700
    ...A discharged battery is still around 10.2 VDC so if you had one discharged and one partially charged and one fully charged and...
  • Re: Run time to charge Aux battery
    Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
    Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:26:13 -0700
    ...if you wanted to never discharge your >> deep-cycle batteries too deeply (say never less than 80% discharged so >> they last longer), then a...
  • Re: Battery Isolator question
    Historical mailing list - tom ring
    Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:35:31 -0600
    ...tom On 4 Sep 2003 at 6:54, Gnarlodious wrote: > Question: > A battery isolator will block discharge from the starting battery while > allowing discharge...
  • Re: Battery Charger Sizing (Amperage) Woe and Warning (?)
    Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
    Sat, 3 Aug 2013 13:10:34 -0500
    In my experience sulfated plates are caused by discharging a battery too far & the longer the battery remains discharged the more sulfated the plates...
  • Re: Optima d750-S vs. d750-U
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sat, 21 Aug 1999 01:14:48 -0400
    ...Amp-hour ratings say how much total power is available from the battery at a specified discharge rate. Ordinarily the rate is 20 hours...
  • Re: Fire Suppression Solutions
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:30:18 -0500
    ...Use to chill a few when I was in the Navy, but putting them down the discharge funnel of the CO2 extinguisher and pulliing...
  • High Intensity Discharge Lighting System
    Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
    Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:40:30 -0500
    ...priced luxury import to enjoy the many advantages of High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting systems. Sylvania, a world leader in lighting technology has introduced...
  • Re: Run time to charge Aux battery
    Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
    Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:27:13 -0700
    ...if you wanted to never discharge >>> your >>> deep-cycle batteries too deeply (say never less than 80% discharged >>> so >>> they last longer), then a...
  • Radiator fan
    Historical mailing list - Robert Clemmer
    Sun, 6 Sep 2020 09:41:20 -0400
    ...I resorted to disconnecting the battery to shut it off and save the battery from deep discharge. Anyone want to weigh in on the...