[DeTomaso] NPC - jump starting a car

[Jerry Knotts]

Charles,

It sounds to me as if you have a dead cell or a shorted sell.  I think a 
new battery is in order.  Some chargers have a reconditioning setting 
that will help a bad cell but not fix it. If you have a shorted cell, 
when you connect the jumpers you will notice a big drag from the 
alternator on the running engine.

Good luck,
jerry knotts


On 8/25/2013 2:59 PM, Charles McCall wrote:
> Update - I took the battery out of the Pantera and put it in the dead car
> and it fired right up.
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> So something was wrong with the jumper cable connection but I don't know
> what. Negative to negative, positive to positive, it really isn't that
> tricky, right?
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> Will a trickle charger eventually charge a completely discharged battery?
> It's a normal, cheap car battery not an optima-whatever.
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> Thanks all!
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> Charles McCall
> Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
>   <http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323>
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> From: Charles McCall [mailto:CharlesMcCall at gmail.com]
> Sent: domingo, 25 de agosto de 2013 20:00
> To: detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: NPC - jump starting a car
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> Hi all
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> The car in question hadn't been started in literally 3 months. I went to
> start it on Thursday and the battery was discharged. I hooked a trickle
> charger up to it overnight, and Friday morning the car started just fine.
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> I drove the car during the day, had no trouble starting it on the 4-5
> occasions I had to start it.
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> Today, Sunday, two days later the car wouldn't start again (I was going to
> move it to hook the trickle charger up to it and let it charge for a week or
> however long it takes to completely charge). I got some jumper cables and am
> trying to start the car but it won't turn over.
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> When I turn the key, the interior light goes out which indicates to me that
> the battery is discharged. I hooked up the jumper cables and the car still
> won't turn over (and the interior light goes out).
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> If I turn the headlights on on the car with the dead battery, I can see that
> the lights get noticeably brighter when connecting the jumper cables so I
> have to believe that current is reaching the battery. What can possibly be
> the problem?
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> If the connection weren't good, then the headlights wouldn't get brighter.
> But on the other hand, if the connection were good then the interior light
> wouldn't go out when I try engaging the starter, right?
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> This is kind of a problem as now the dead car is blocking the good car from
> getting out of the garage (and therefore going to work tomorrow!)
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> Thanks!
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> Charles McCall
> Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
>   <http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323>
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