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Subject:Re: (was) I could use a little help - jump starters
From:Janne Ruohom�ki
Date:Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:22:13 +0300

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:02 PM, B Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:
> I personally invented killing my starting battery by leaving something on. ;)

Hah! But I developed a randomly self powering radio which destroyed my
starting battery over time. It was wired so that You could listen to
it without keys. I have not yet researched this issue enough to say
whether it would do any kind of self shutdown, and I remember music
being on couple of times when entering after work.

I noticed this while ago when I was doing some cleaning. I started to
wonder who is playing such lousy music so loud that I can here it over
the noise of the vacuum cleaner. I was cleaning at the back and had
not even been at the front. That thing was not on when I started.
After that I have always detached the front panel. No more
dead-battery-mondays, but my current battery wont make it through next
winter.

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