[DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight tonight!

[wkooiman at earthlink.net]

BTW, that was a cool article.  I would have never thought about hooking up another battery in parallel.


-----Original Message-----
>From: JDeRyke at aol.com
>Sent: Oct 25, 2010 12:02 PM
>To: kenn_green at yahoo.com, detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight	tonight!
>
>Dunno on that particular charger, but quite a few 'smart' chargers simply 
>do not recognize AGM batteries when they get hooked on. I wrote a little tip 
>in your POCA Newsletter back in September taken from the Optima Tech site: 
>
>'To charge ANY deeply discharged Optima (and presumably other AGM 
>batteries), hook it along with a fully charged battery, to the charger in parallel. 
>Leave the two batteries on for 30 minutes (no longer than 60 minutes or you 
>risk destroying the charger), then disconnect the fully charged one. This 
>should lay enough surface charge onto the Optima to allow the charger to 
>realize there's a discharged battery hooked to it and charging will proceed 
>normally'. 
>Good luck- J DeRyke
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