How you get a charge
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Red_Bullet
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Re: How you get a charge
Once charged just take off the negative lead and it should be fine for months.
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Rocky
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Re: How you get a charge
Yep RB, I thinks that's a plan.
Checked this am and the Charger has run all the way through it's routine and everything was fine, so I will now disconnect it and maybe just hook it up again a couple of days before we go away.
Checked this am and the Charger has run all the way through it's routine and everything was fine, so I will now disconnect it and maybe just hook it up again a couple of days before we go away.
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Mr Morlock
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Re: How you get a charge
I have been using trickle chargers for years without any problems. My NB battery is original - touch wood- still cranking but I never leave it for more than 2 weeks without either a charge or a drive. A month holiday and all cars left on trickle.
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Rocky
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Re: How you get a charge
MM - You are saying that your NB battery is the original? That makes it 17 yrs old!!!
Did I read that right? If so, that is incredible. Can anyone beat that?
That would be solid proof of the efficacy of the use of a Trickle-charger over time to condition your battery.
Did I read that right? If so, that is incredible. Can anyone beat that?
That would be solid proof of the efficacy of the use of a Trickle-charger over time to condition your battery.
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Mr Morlock
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Re: How you get a charge
Yes its true and now I have come out with it - will it keep hanging in there ... hoping so.
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Re: How you get a charge
I think you have just condemned it ....
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Re: How you get a charge
Genuinely shocked a standard one has lasted that long.
In saying that, mine did a good 15 years of service before it finally gave up (still holds a bit of charge, so may even come back with one of the chargers that can "recover" batteries)
I've already got batteries hanging around the shed that I need to take to the tip, so if anybody wants an NB Panasonic that MAY come back to life with a good charger, they're welcome to it.
In saying that, mine did a good 15 years of service before it finally gave up (still holds a bit of charge, so may even come back with one of the chargers that can "recover" batteries)
I've already got batteries hanging around the shed that I need to take to the tip, so if anybody wants an NB Panasonic that MAY come back to life with a good charger, they're welcome to it.
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Rocky
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Re: How you get a charge
That is just the motivation I needed to persevere with the new Charger.
It says in the Manual that it sort of "conditions" the battery before it starts the charge cycle, so maybe regular use of the Charger will extend the life.
Realistically, MM you MUST be living on 'borrowed time' with that battery.
Interested to hear that Kansei got 15yrs+ out of one, so these kind of timeframes are not unheard of...
It says in the Manual that it sort of "conditions" the battery before it starts the charge cycle, so maybe regular use of the Charger will extend the life.
Realistically, MM you MUST be living on 'borrowed time' with that battery.
Interested to hear that Kansei got 15yrs+ out of one, so these kind of timeframes are not unheard of...
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