On 1/12/05 6:44 PM, "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM> wrote:

> Sometime whilst my van has been sitting up with its mortally wounded tranny,
> it spontaneously developed a short (presumably just to spite me) and drained
> the battery-not completely, as I still had some power, just not enough to turn
> the engine over. I discovered this while I was attempting my weekly
> maintenance start-and-run a couple of weeks ago. Ok, my fault for not
> disconnecting the cables between runs, I guess. Charged the battery up well,
> engine fired right up, ran it for a while, shut it down, disconnected the
> cables this time. Came next weekend, hook up the battery, no joy. Charged it
> up and put the meter on it. I had a good charge, but the voltage was dropping
> before my eyes. Hooked it up while it still had enough juice, ran it,
> disconnected it. 
> Went out today, the voltage was 12.06. Put the charger on it, get it up to
> 12.78, starts dropping again. 12.77, 76, 75 and so on, about once per second.
> The battery is under warranty and hasn't even hit the prorate period yet, so
> that's no biggie. I'm just wondering what happened to it just for my own
> edification. I've seen batteries die from being discharged past the point of
> recovery, etc. but I don't reckon I've seen quite this thing before- anybody
> wanna take a stab at it?
> 
> Cya,
> Robert
> 
> 
Take it in for its warrantee replacement.  When working  in the FLAPS we
would see 1 out of about 100 come back like that.  It usually means a bad
plate that has started to separate and is now an internal load rather than a
storage area.  The mfr told us that that usually was a battery that was
dropped during transport or handling.

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