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Subject:Battery question, nvc, but could be
From:Don Hanson
Date:Sat, 13 Aug 2016 10:08:37 -0700

Can complete discharge of brand new batteries kill em? Did I just blow $160
bucks by leaving the key on in my recently revived diesel?  The truck (f250
powerstroke Ford) got two Interstate batts.  I found it this morning
without even enough electrons to move anything on the gauges or light the
warning lights...Deader than a doornail!  I'm now charging them, or
trying.    Put a digital meter on each, before I hooked it up...read
0.02v....with my battery charger on "manual- 10 amp" my meter is reading
12.00v... I am an electrical dunce, BTW...