Karl Wolz wrote:
> Understood and agreed with.  Right now I'm not getting around (ruptured
> achilles tendon repair), so I'm not getting into opening the battery box.
> The little plug-in meter does give me 13.6 as soon as the engine is started.

Ah -- having recently been messed up with an ankle fusion I understand
that you can't easily poke around the battery box or anything like that.

If you are seeing 13.6 up at the dash after the alternator has spun up
then the battery has to be getting a very decent charge.

So if you are seeing 12.2 (right?) in the morning, with the car "off"
then the battery is sagging a lot overnight, it seems. No loads like
radios or anything else pulling on it when the van should be off?

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
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