Gjac wrote:
I would start by cleaning the battery terminals. How soon after taking your 11 year old battery of the charger did you take a reading and get 13.5 v? That could be just a surface charge if you took the reading an hr after you charged it. At any rate if you don't want to buy a new battery I would charge all 3 let them sit over night take a reading on each one and if you see 12.6 v on two of them wire them in parallel and see if the engine will turn over. Once you know your connections are free of corrosion and you have enough CCA's to turn the engine over(if you have house batteries which are good you can use your emergency start button also) and it still wont start the next step it tom look at the starting relay. See if you are reading 12+ v on each side of the relay. Try all that and let us know how you make out.
The 11 year old Yellow Top was sitting in my Jeep which is temproarily disabled until I install a new rear hard brake line. I had it on a charger but took off a few weeks ago, so it's been sitting with out a charge either from a charger or alternator for at least a few weeks.
I was thinking of swapping to my other Jeep that has a brand new Ever Start that has gone dead twice, leaving the interior lights on. I left my door open once for approx. 4 hours and another time 2 hours and it went completely dead (2-3 volts) I think it's a piece of ?#?x?. They put this stupid tight fitting cover over the cells that's impossible to remove to perform maintenance.
Anyway when I went to swap it for the Yellow Top recently the 11 year old Yellow Top voltage read 13.35 volts (from Fluke DMM) and it hadn't been charged in several weeks.
I'll take extra care in cleaning terminals, perhaps chain a few of the batteries in parallel.
It does have an auxiliary start but the three house batteries have been removed.
