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Re: [Shop-talk] battery tender

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] battery tender
From: "Randall" <TR3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 18:29:32 -0700
> The noise was 
> the sound of boiling battery acid. 

FWIW, I've had a similar experience that was caused not by the alternator
but by a shorted cell in the battery.

I wasn't so lucky, though, the hydrogen/oxygen mixture got ignited and the
first thing I knew about it was someone knocking on the door : "Did you know
your car is smoking?"

Stupid car design : running the hood release cable above the battery !

-- Randall  
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