how old is the battery??
if it is over 3 years old, it is most likely shot.
lack of use in a car battery is its #1 enemy.
the plates will corrode and break down.
it will look like it is fully charged, cause when you hook up the charger
it
will bridge the gap in the plates, showing a full charge, but once you try
to pull any power out of it, the gap will reopen and it will act like a
dead
battery.
put a new battery in it, with either a battery maintainer/trickle charger,
or a solar battery charger on it at all times. this will keep the battery
topped of, and it will last forever.
<myford100@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> You're saying "charger meter," but that's probably a voltmeter. It
> may be that you're charging it up to its full capacity, but the three
> months without running allowed one or more cells to degrade and
> reduced the full capacity to some laughably small fraction of the
> original.
>
> Can you put a load tester on it? Around here, the parts places, or
> even a WalMart, will test a battery for free. Have you tried putting
> in a known good battery?
>
> Let us know how it comes out.
>
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:46:56 GMT, "Jim Beaver"
> <jumblejim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>I've got a '57 Chevy. It's run great -- only 5,200 miles on a new crate
>>engine, everything else new. New battery (well, 5,200 miles on it).
>>Started fine every time for months. THEN I was detained out of town
>>unexpectedly for about three months on a job and wasn't able to start
the
>>car. Battery was left connected.
>>
>>Now, when I got back, I expected a dead battery, and sure enough, the
car
>>wouldn't start. Jumping it worked fine, many times. But driving it
would
>>not apparently charge it up, as it would never start without a jump. So
I
>>hooked up a charger to put a slow charge on it, figuring I've got a VERY
>>low
>>battery. But the charger meter indicates there's a full charge in the
>>battery. But still it won't start without a jump.
>>
>>Keep in mind that it worked fine, every time -- battery, starter,
>>recharging
>>system, engine, everything. The ONLY thing that's happened is three
>>months
>>sitting unused.
>>
>>So IF the battery has a full charge and nothing has been changed in
regard
>>to all the like-new equipment that worked fine before, what am I
missing?
>>It seems to me that every part of the equation is in working condition,
>>yet
>>with no change other than time, it's suddenly not working. And that
>>doesn't
>>make sense to an amateur like me. Any ideas?
>>
>>Jim Beaver
>
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