Re: re: Dead battery

From: Chris Lang (langcj@polaris.clarkson.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 18:24:41 EST


Yeah the same thing happened to my motorcycle battery I couldnt push start
it either.

Chris Lang

-----Original Message-----
From: E. Frank Ball III <frankb@sr.hp.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 6:02 PM
Subject: DML: re: Dead battery

>} I have outlived many lead-acid batteries, but they typically gave me at
least
>} a hint of warning. This one was 100%, and then went poof after 0.25
second.
>
>This is a very common failure mechanism in motorcycle batteries. They
>just pop like a fuse and are open circuited. Put any load at all on
>them and you get near zero volts. Once when I hit the starter button
>there was a faint pop from under the seat and everything was dead. I
>couldn't even push start it. I'm not sure if all motorcycle batteries
>are made like crap (there are only 2 or 3 factories world wide for bike
>batteries) or if it is the vibration that kills them. I've only ever
>heard of one car battery popping like this before.
>
>
>Frank Ball 1UR-M frankb@sr.hp.com (707) 794-4168 work
>Hewlett Packard (707) 794-3038 fax (707) 538-3693 home
>1212 Valley House Drive Kawi KDX200, Yamaha XT350 YZF600R Seca 750
>Rohnert Park CA 94928-4999 '95 Dakota SLT Club Cab V8 5-Speed 2WD
>



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