- 1. battery trickle chargers (score: 1)
- Author: Eric@megageek.com
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:41:01 -0500
- Does anyone have any experience hooking up a heavy duty battery (from my John Deere 350B Crawler) to a trickle charger? The reason is that this equipment doesn't have a glow plug warmer and it takes
- /html/shop-talk/2002-12/msg00054.html (7,685 bytes)
- 2. RE: battery trickle chargers (score: 1)
- Author: Randall Young <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:40:30 -0800
- Haven't tried it, but it should work fine. Better than a trickle charger would be a "battery maintainer" that implements a multi-level charge. Basically you don't want to charge the battery all the
- /html/shop-talk/2002-12/msg00056.html (8,868 bytes)
- 3. RE: battery trickle chargers (score: 1)
- Author: jmark.vanscoter@amd.com
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:47:37 -0600
- You use ether as a starter fluid for most diesel engines. Remember watching a mechanic spray an old International with ether until it started. Sounded better on ether than on diesel, put out pretty w
- /html/shop-talk/2002-12/msg00057.html (8,186 bytes)
- 4. Re: battery trickle chargers (score: 1)
- Author: "Ben and Pam Zwissler" <bzwissler1@insightbb.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 21:08:53 -0500
- Yes, ether is commonly used on diesels, but be careful, too much can damage the engine. There are lots of intake air preheater systems - some are electric and some are diesel fuel based (fire in the
- /html/shop-talk/2002-12/msg00058.html (10,515 bytes)
- 5. Re: battery trickle chargers (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Russell <ejrussell@mebtel.net>
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:25:50 -0500
- No glow plugs? It must really be hard to start when cold. Any possibility of adding a block heater? I had an '83 F250 with the diesel engine. The block heater merely fit into the spot where a 'freeze
- /html/shop-talk/2002-12/msg00059.html (8,249 bytes)
- 6. RE: battery trickle chargers (score: 1)
- Author: Steven Trovato <trovato@computer.net>
- Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 13:33:15 -0500
- I've got a couple of DieHard Battery Charger Maintainers that seem to work fine. They include spring clamps as well as eye ring connectors, so you can hook it up temporarily or semi-permanently. Box
- /html/shop-talk/2002-12/msg00067.html (7,988 bytes)
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