[DeTomaso] NPC - jump starting a car

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Yes, a trickle charger should bring a battery to fully charged. What may
be tricky is to get the charger to start if you have a very drained
battery. If you have a smart charger it'll tell you if it thinks things
are wrong.
 
Tomas

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 	  	 From: Charles McCall [charlesmccall at gmail.com]
Sent: 25/8/2013 9:59:53 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - jump starting a car 

Update - I took the battery out of the Pantera and put it in the dead
car 
and it fired right up. 



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? 



Will a trickle charger eventually charge a completely discharged
battery? 
It's a normal, cheap car battery not an optima-whatever. 



Thanks all! 



Charles McCall 
Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe 
1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375 
<http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323> 
http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323 



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 



Hi all 



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. 



I drove the car during the day, had no trouble starting it on the 4-5 
occasions I had to start it. 



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. 



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). 



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? 



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? 



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!) 



Thanks! 



Charles McCall 
Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe 
1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375 
<http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323> 
http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323 



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