|
I think you you should read the article on this web site about batteries.
http://www.progressivedyn.com/battery_basics.html
It might explain why the voltage is low while charging.
By the time you get to the bottom of the article it will explain why the battery is bad.
Not knowing the basics and how to take care of them is like taking a gun and shooting the battery in its side.
It's the next thing to premeditated murder to ignore batteries.
I like the idea of a bad start/neutral safety switch to keep it from turning over or even clicking
It takes quite a few amps to push the gear clutch into position before the electric motor turns on.
You should at least have nice and real bright head lamps to turn on or just forget about it.
If they go out or very dim, it's a power supply problem.
There are 6 cells. 2.25 each so 10 volts means one is open or shorted with sulphate, that all equals to bad!
That's the one you shot with a TIME gun!
Leaving a battery to self discharge or bubble away, sends sulphuric acid gas vapors to condensed all around there. Cold metals attract wetness. Not driving never stirs the air or boils off battery acid vapors.
It looks like to me, the habit you have, has accumulated into a point of saturation. That stuff that has covered everthing. By this I mean this from cables to all metal the body grounding points and on downwards.
Neglect pays the owner back!
You don't use it, you lose it
Keep the battery out of the car or at least disconnected.
By using a float charger/maintainer "only" supplements the internal resistance draw that is happening 24 hours a day. We are talking a minimum amount of current and voltage.
I use a Harbor Freight one after I know the battery is fully charged and operating normally.
My batteries go for ten or more years.
You should drive the car several miles "every" week or put it in a car that gets used that much. Otherwise a float charger is on it for weeks until I need that car.
Otherwise you end you with a bunches of black cased corpses lying around. No green in your pocket or green lights to drive under on the way to work.
Phil
|
