Re: Speaking of car batteries

"Klokmeester" <whowhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:13t6i1fo8f40596@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Done it in a lab and out in feild.
>
> Car battery?

Ummm, to be honest I cant remember exactly but Im 90% sure yes it was.

>
>> Whats the trick to ****ing it up?
>
> Dead flat but otherwise serviceable battery. Hook up charger wrong way 
> around.
>
> Battery boiled itself to death, charger nearly went into meltdown and 
> cooked itself... almost terminally.
>
> Battery completely ****ed, reads -0.2V and has lost half it's water. No 
> longer takes a charge after topping back up.
>
> Exact same results as the one that was done at work a couple of years
ago, 
> with the exception that the charger suffered a terminal transformer 
> failure that time as well.
>

Hmmm, I had no real issues with it. It was done for me first in a
classroom 
with a wet cell, not a car battery but similar. I tried with limited
success 
on a typical car battery yes.