Rick,
When a battery goes dead after two months it needs to be charged for a long
time in order to start behaving properly. I'm not positive, but I think a
slow charge is best for this. If it goes dead overnight it needs a short,
high intensity charge and comes up quickly.
This is exactly what I experienced when starting my '56 TR3 after completing
restoration and using an old battery.
Duncan
> Here's the situation:
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> - Tried to start the Tiger after its been sitting for 2 months
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> - Starter didn't even engage
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> - Battery showed ~10V, so I put in on the charger
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> - Battery charged to the regulation 12.32V in about 10 mintues (Is this
suspicious?)
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> - Threw it back in the car & checked voltages at the battery & solenoid
(I've had problems with that before)
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> - Tried to start it again - again, nothing happened,
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> - Just from trying to start it, the battery had gone back down to ~10V
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> - Tried charging it again - left it over night, though I've no doubt my
charger had decided it was charged sooner than that
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> - Tried starting the car w/the same results: 12V before turning the key,
knocked down to 10V without even the starter engaging to show for my
trouble - past the solenoid, I was getting >1V
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> Are these the symptoms of a dead battery? (Never had one before, so I'm
not sure what I should be looking at to fix the situation.)
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> rick
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