Walmart battery in my Honda Civic Toad
About 2.5 years ago I installed a Walmart sourced battery in our 2007 Honda Civic Toad thinking it should last a few years. Of late I have had 2 separate incidents where the battery went flat while ju...
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j-d wrote:
Harvard, you said "Dead" and that's what I think happened. that's vs. "Discharged." Battery'll work today and be useless tomorrow. Probably cell(s) shorted or separated. Now that there aren't any caps, really can't tell.
The battery in each case discharged. All I had to do is jumper the car and take it out for a 30 minute drive and it lasted for weeks (driving the car almost every day) before it did it again.
So here is an update.
The Walmart battery was put on a cheap charger where it started out a 6 amps and after 24 hours it was at about 1 amp and then I took it off the charger. The Walmart battery has been sitting for about 4 days now since the charge session and it has a "on the bench" voltage of 13.11 VDC. No, the charger wires were disconnected from the Walmart battery 4 days ago..
The Honda battery is in the car, the car was out for a 90 minute drive yesterday and has been sitting for abut 20 hours, the Honda battery voltage right now is 12.64 VDC (no, car is not running).
And NO, I am not using a cheap DVM, it is a brand new Fluke 115.
