How Low Can You Go? Update

Kinja'd!!! "My92SSEisn'taTardis" (92ssei)
03/28/2014 at 19:35 • Filed to: deadbatterylopnik

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Can you tell from the picture the direction this blurb is going? A friend from the States is over currently for a bit and after doing me a favour and picking me up from a friends little soirée last night (btw paramedic students and cards against humanity = good times, very horrible but good times) however he ended up fiddling with the Twilight Sentinel Module that control the auto headlights in my car, for some reason and as a result put my headlights in manual on mode. Cue 20 hrs later and I'm heading to the grocers for some stuff and my car is dead, not even a flicker or a chime dead. I got out the charger for my battery, and its one of the intelligent chargers mind you, and it cannot even recognize thats its connected to a battery. Voltmeter reading across the terminals is not good - 0.16 V when it finally settles. I have a friend coming over later and we are gonna try and revive the battery with a jump and see if we can build enough capacity that my charger can take over but I might be getting a new one pretty quick here if that doesn't pan out. Interesting start to the afternoon I must say.

Update: She lives for now...currently idling away and recharging we'll see how that works but she fired right away from a boost so fingers crossed.


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! Frank Grimes > My92SSEisn'taTardis
03/28/2014 at 19:37

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If the battery is dead throw it through his testicles!


Kinja'd!!! My92SSEisn'taTardis > Frank Grimes
03/28/2014 at 19:45

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Eh, shit happens. I'm not too bothered about it. he's owning up to his mistake and gonna cover the cost if its dead. Testicle bursting battery throw isn't necessary....yet *evil smile*


Kinja'd!!! Frank Grimes > My92SSEisn'taTardis
03/28/2014 at 19:46

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oh good I hate when people dont take responsibility.


Kinja'd!!! My92SSEisn'taTardis > Frank Grimes
03/28/2014 at 19:51

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Yeah thats always a bit of a peeve....


Kinja'd!!! lonestranger > My92SSEisn'taTardis
03/28/2014 at 19:54

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Does it have both side and top terminals? Try testing and/or charging via the other ones.

I had a Crappy Tire battery die, but it tested fine via the top posts. The internal connection to the side terminals was shot, however .

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Kinja'd!!! My92SSEisn'taTardis > lonestranger
03/28/2014 at 20:09

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Nope top only on a GM car, I have a top post to side post converter for the battery due to some reason I cant remember (swapping battery between cars most likely) I originally had a side post battery though.....