Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 13:17:26 PST From: mojavegnopsamsp.com (Everett M. Greene) Subject: Battery problems
I've lost several batteries in the last couple of years and am wondering what's causing this unusually high failure rate. In two incidents in two different vehicles, the battery was "cooked" (battery was so hot that the electrolyte was boiling). This would seem to be something akin a regulator sticking and having maximum current being fed to the battery, but I'm not aware of alternators having regulators. In the first incident, the battery was replaced and no more problems occurred. In the second, problems continued until the alternator was replaced. In the other incidents, the batteries were just suddenly dead for no apparent reason and with very little use. In the last month or so, a battery was dead in a vehicle which isn't being driven very often. It wouldn't take a charge so it was replaced under warranty. The next morning, the new battery was dead; the interior lights had been left on overnight by mistake, but this wouldn't seem to be enough to completely discharge a new battery. Took the battery back to the shop and had it charged; brought it back and put it in the vehicle but didn't connect the positive cable. A week or so later, the battery was dead when I went to drive it. In these latter incidents, am I just encountering a bad run of battery quality control? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Everett M. Greene (The Mojave Greene, crotalus scutulatus scutulatus) Ridgecrest, Ca. 93555 Path: mojavegnopsamSP.com Opinions are like armpits: We all have them and they all stink. Forbes.com radio commercial
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