Battery failure today

[Greg Masters]

My OE battery finally failed today.

I can't complain really, it was 2 months short of 10 years old. I think that the Optimate has now paid for itself!

A new Yuasa cost me £53.

Greg

 

[ianran]

My OE battery finally failed today.

I can't complain really, it was 2 months short of 10 years old. I think that the Optimate has now paid for itself!

A new Yuasa cost me £53.

Greg

Where you get it from as a nice man from the AA had to give me a jump start

 

[John Armstrong]

Where you get it from as a nice man from the AA had to give me a jump start

Exide (the OEM one AFAIK) is £69 plus delivery from Motorworks.

 

[Greg Masters]

Where you get it from as a nice man from the AA had to give me a jump start

It came from MDS Battery Ltd.

The price quoted on the link does not include acid - but the do have a Lucas glass matt battery with acid at a slightly cheaper price.

Greg

 

[ianran]

It came from MDS Battery Ltd.

The price quoted on the link does not include acid - but the do have a Lucas glass matt battery with acid at a slightly cheaper price.

Greg

Sorry but mini thread hi-jack!!!

Thanks for that, Ive put battery on charge overnight coz Im guessing the bloke I bought it from several months ago never bothered and he left it alone for periods of time. On my optimate the green light on the left and all the central lights are on this morning does anyone know what this means as Ive lost the manual?

 

[John Armstrong]

On my optimate the green light on the left and all the central lights are on this morning does anyone know what this means as Ive lost the manual?

Some ideas here: http://www.google.com/search?source...hBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7TSEA_en-GBGB323

 

[Greg Masters]

Ive lost the manual?

Optimate I

Optimate II

Optimate III

Optimate IIIsp

Optimate 4

Greg

 

[ianran]

Some ideas here: http://www.google.com/search?source...hBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7TSEA_en-GBGB323

Thanks I searched on yahoo, mines the oxford one and has a green and red light at each of the bottom corners then a strip of lights in the middle so subtley different to the ones in the link.

Just checked mines an OXIMISER not optimiser!! (muppet!!)

 

[Greg Masters]

Just checked mines an OXIMISER not optimiser!! (muppet!!)

.... or even Optimate!



Greg

 

[ianran]

.... or even Optimate!



Greg

Its early....(for me !!)



I will get my coat!

 

[MattW]

Unfortunately, once you've flattened a battery it's capacity will have been irreversibly reduced and it's toast. Any amount of fancy chargers will not be able to recover this lost capacity (whatever they say on the box!). A charger will probably report a battery is fully charged and ready to go but this will be fully charged to its new reduced capacity.

You might get away with this in warm weather but as soon as it gets cold (which further reduces a batteries capacity) it'll probably give you trouble.

 

[Fanum]

Unfortunately, once you've flattened a battery it's capacity will have been irreversibly reduced and it's toast. Any amount of fancy chargers will not be able to recover this lost capacity (whatever they say on the box!). A charger will probably report a battery is fully charged and ready to go but this will be fully charged to its new reduced capacity.

You might get away with this in warm weather but as soon as it gets cold (which further reduces a batteries capacity) it'll probably give you trouble.

Depends on the type of battery

There was a long and well informed thread on the very subject a while ago, and I'm no expert by a long chalk, but I think that was the conclusion

 

[ELIMINATOR]

these vibrator batteries don't last lon............. er, hmm, I'll get my coat.