Argh flat battery help
Discussion
Morning. I've managed to flatten my battery. At least, I've flattened it enough for the starter to just click a lot & not actually fire the car up. I'm thinking I should get a trickle charger or one of those booster packs to get into a position to get it running. Any opinions on the best plan? Car is on the drive so I guess a charger would have to be solar powered. Do these actually charge the battery back up or just stop them going flat?
Cheers
Cheers
Steve_T said:
The solar ones may stop the decline sometimes, but often they just don't cut it and your battery goes flat anyway (not enough current supplied).
OK cheers, I'll scrap that idea then. I guess I'll have to go with one of those booster packs. Probably a good idea as I normally use the car enough not to let the charge go down. Just this last few weeks in the grim cold & wet I've neglected it a bit.
kevin63 said:
My Cerb is parked in the drive out side, but is still pluged in to a accumate, they'r great. It's fused, so even if someone cut the wires it would not harm the electrics on the car.
How do you do this? I mean, I could run a lead from the side of my house but I'm thinking about getting the lead into the car. Where does it plug in? Do you have to leave a window slightly open or something? What about rain? I'm an accumate virgin you see
Mine is conected to the battery direct, the other end of the lead can be anywhere eg; in the opening for the radiator, all you would do then is put your hand in the opening, lift up the plug, and plug it in, you would not see it when it is not been used, and the rain would not affect it there.
I wouldn't attempt to start a flat 70ah battery with one of those booster packs. Judging by the weight of them, they've got about a 10ah battery in them, if not less.
Last week, I tried starting the Cerb off A metro, with A 40ah ish alternator and a set of thin leads, and the Cerb was having non of it.
I ended up using our transit van (100ah) alternator, and bought a set of 7 litre leads from halfords..... the Cerb started in a fraction of a second.
You'll need a vehicle with a decent size engine, or a Diesel, or A spare, charged, 70AH or greater battery would be your best bet.
Good luck
Last week, I tried starting the Cerb off A metro, with A 40ah ish alternator and a set of thin leads, and the Cerb was having non of it.
I ended up using our transit van (100ah) alternator, and bought a set of 7 litre leads from halfords..... the Cerb started in a fraction of a second.
You'll need a vehicle with a decent size engine, or a Diesel, or A spare, charged, 70AH or greater battery would be your best bet.
Good luck
RUSSELLM said:
I wouldn't attempt to start a flat 70ah battery with one of those booster packs. Judging by the weight of them, they've got about a 10ah battery in them, if not less.
Last week, I tried starting the Cerb off A metro, with A 40ah ish alternator and a set of thin leads, and the Cerb was having non of it.
I ended up using our transit van (100ah) alternator, and bought a set of 7 litre leads from halfords..... the Cerb started in a fraction of a second.
You'll need a vehicle with a decent size engine, or a Diesel, or A spare, charged, 70AH or greater battery would be your best bet.
Good luck
Last week, I tried starting the Cerb off A metro, with A 40ah ish alternator and a set of thin leads, and the Cerb was having non of it.
I ended up using our transit van (100ah) alternator, and bought a set of 7 litre leads from halfords..... the Cerb started in a fraction of a second.
You'll need a vehicle with a decent size engine, or a Diesel, or A spare, charged, 70AH or greater battery would be your best bet.
Good luck
My halfords battery pack will start the Cerb from a low battery no problem. Wouldn't want to use it on a completely flat battery though.....
gazzab said:
I have found that starting a cerb with leads from a small car I need to leave the cars connected, rev the 'donor' car a little bit and give it a couple of minutes. This seems to give the cerb a little more juice and then will turn over whilst still connected up.
It would do, the donor cars alternator is charging the Cerbs battery.
Get a new Battery! I had a flat battery over Christmas after not using the Cerbie for 10 days. I got it started using the Kia 4x4 no problem but it never really recovered. So after 6 days of locked in garage. Dead. I couldn't even get in using the keyfob. It took me a while to get in manually and I had to reset door/windows etc onec it fired up. Now I have a trickle Charger on ever night! Don't get caught out once the battery has started going flat.
headcase said:
If you only use it weekends then you are a good candidate for an accumate!
Dammit. I was hoping you wouldn't say that.
I have a nice, warm, cosy underground car park, but no power. Shared space under the block...
So am I inviting trouble? Or will I need to take a booster with me everywhere I go?
A good booster can also beused to trickle charge.
So I guess you park up on sunday night with a big smil
then plug the booster to charge up in your lounge. Wednesday evening put the fully charged booster in the cerb and give it a 24hr trickle top up for good measure. booster then back upstairs for a recharge less the tricle was ineffective come the weekend.
So I guess you park up on sunday night with a big smil
then plug the booster to charge up in your lounge. Wednesday evening put the fully charged booster in the cerb and give it a 24hr trickle top up for good measure. booster then back upstairs for a recharge less the tricle was ineffective come the weekend.
Update - I bought a jump pack from Halfords which allowed me to jump start the car: typical bloody retarded TVR battery placement though - a real job to get the jump lead clip on to the black terminal!!!!!
Also this pack allows you to charge the battery through the fag lighter if its not too flat so ideal for the man in the car park with no power. For info - can't remember the name of the thing, but its the halfords own brand one that also has an air compressor & an inverter built in.
Cheers all.
Also this pack allows you to charge the battery through the fag lighter if its not too flat so ideal for the man in the car park with no power. For info - can't remember the name of the thing, but its the halfords own brand one that also has an air compressor & an inverter built in.
Cheers all.
Phil_Edge said:
So... the weekend driver (ie. me) should be expecting the battery to take a beating in it (nearly?) being flat every time I come back to the car?
Or are we talking about anomalies here?
Or are we talking about anomalies here?
It takes about 3 weeks for my battery to run out of charge. Take it out every one to two weeks and you're fine.
Steve.
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