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Posted by on January 21, 2008, 11:55 am
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:48:05 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
>Hmm. Is that like "fruit flies like a bannana" where we have to try to
>figure out the punctuation?
Eats shoots and leaves
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on January 21, 2008, 10:05 pm
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:48:05 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
>Hmm. Is that like "fruit flies like a bannana" where we have to try to
>figure out the punctuation?
That reminds me of something I saw on a box once, "do not drop this
side up". No punctuation.
How do you drop something up (and only one side too)?
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Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"All your western theologies, the whole mythology of them,
are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
-- Tennessee Williams
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Posted by Jim Yanik on January 20, 2008, 12:10 pm
> I've wondered about those. If you clamped the clamps to the car
> battery, and then plug in the internal charger (or plug in the charge
> plug to the jump pack) it seems like it should charge your car battery
> overnight.
you could buy a decent battery charger for less.
>
> Makes me wonder if the car battery froze overnight, thus killing it
> completely?
>
those "jumpstarters" are just a 12v 19A-H gel cell;how long do you think
they hold a charge after they are pulled off the mains?
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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
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Posted by DerbyDad03 on January 21, 2008, 4:07 pm
> I have a Black and Decker 450 amp jump starter.
>
> The car battery was dead because the lights were left on. =A0I wanted to
> use the car in the morning. =A0I took the battery charger and put it on
> the battery, the night before, intending to trickle charge it.
>
> The next morning the car would not start and there was no juice in the
> charger.
>
> I am guessing that the jump starters are not intended to trickle
> charge, although I don't see why.
As many have already replied, these devices will not charge a battery.
In addition (in my experience) they will jump a weak battery, but may
have trouble with a cold, completely dead battery. I've used my HF
JumpStart numorous times to jump various vehicle where we at least got
a click or 2 out of the starter solenoid, but when my son left the
lights on overnight on a very cold night, the JumpStart device did not
work. One shot with jumper cables and another vehicle and the dead car
turned right over.
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Posted by Stormin Mormon on January 21, 2008, 7:46 pm
1) need to charge the booster pack between uses
2) Yeah, the smaller packs won't spin a vehicle with a dead battery. Last
time my van was dead, I tried my smaller pack. 300 amp or something. No go.
Got my Winchester, with the larger cell. That did the job. You may just have
a jumper with a smaller amp rating.
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Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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In addition (in my experience) they will jump a weak battery, but may
have trouble with a cold, completely dead battery. I've used my HF
JumpStart numorous times to jump various vehicle where we at least got
a click or 2 out of the starter solenoid, but when my son left the
lights on overnight on a very cold night, the JumpStart device did not
work. One shot with jumper cables and another vehicle and the dead car
turned right over.
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