Harsh Jones

What would you do if the battery drained on your daily driver ? It hasn't happened in awhile has it ....

The "smart" charger probably found a reason to deny you a charge. Probably because it was hooked up. Completely unhook it and try again. This is an appropriate application for a "smart" charger but you never know what that thing is going to do. You could just get a dumb charger and put it on overnight every once and awhile.

And what would you do if you went on holidays for a week and something drained your daily driver battery in that time ? Or if your wife left the lights on all night ? Do you have an older trickle charger for those times ? Most people just jump start. Then they might get enough power to get their "smart" charger to work. I have seen people fry computers jump starting. I was always told growing up to just throw a drained battery on the trickle charger overnight. And avoid jump starting and bull<deleted> if possible. But with this new garbage, you just cant. Unless you trick them with a 9 volt battery or another car.

A trickle charger should be able to charge a drained battery. A battery in a car who's lights were left on all night. All of the dumb trickle chargers will do this. Are you seriously saying you would throw out a car battery because someone left the lights on all night ?

Batter mfg'ers always recommend slow charging. As opposed to fast charging or flash charging with a big charger. https://federalbatteries.com.au/news/battery-charging-do’s-and-dont’s#:~:text=the Right Charger-,The rule of thumb is 10% of the amp-hour,boil off the acid!). If you leave your lights on overnight and drain your battery, a dumb charger will charge it up overnight. Its just physics. If your car battery was ok enough to start the car and turn the lights on the day before, a dumb trickle charger will bring it back to life overnight. https://www.quora.com/Can-a-trickle-charger-charge-dead-car-batteries -We just did this last weekend when my daughter’s friend’s Jeep wouldn’t start. Yes she had left the headlights on overnight and by morning the battery was completely dead. We told her to leave it with us and get a ride home with another friend who had stayed at our house. My husband hooked the battery to our trickle charger and it recharged after about 6 hours. When she came to pick up the car, it started just fine. -Yes, a trickle charger can help charge a dead car battery. A trickle charger is designed to slowly charge a battery over a long period of time, which can be effective for reviving a dead battery. However, if the battery is completely dead, it may be best to use a regular battery charger to initially jump-start the charging process. Once the battery has some charge, a trickle charger can then be used to fully charge it over an extended period. -Yes, a trickle charger can charge a dead car battery, but it may take a longer time to fully charge the battery compared to other types of chargers. A trickle charger is designed to provide a low and steady charge to the battery over a longer period of time, which is ideal for maintaining the charge of a battery that is not being used regularly. However, if a car battery is completely dead, it may take several days to fully charge it using a trickle charger.

Hagerty even did an article on this. Which means it must be bad. I just wish I knew this earlier. Wrenchin’ Wednesday: Outsmarting the smart battery charger https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/wrenchin-wednesday-outsmarting-the-smart-battery-charger/

Ok nerd. Anyone who hasn't had shop rage before isn't a man

I have charged completely drained batteries on motorcycles and cars a million times. What are you talking about ? Deeply dead batteries. Its amazing what some patients and a good long trickle charge will do to some batteries. The one I am talking about this time was barely a year old and in a daily driver that sat for a week. I have a dumb charger on it right now and I know it will be back to charge in the morning. "smart" trickle chargers do not charge completely drained batteries. That's what makes them useless. Have you ever owned one ?

Your phone charger isn't designed to charge your phone battery after you run it dead either. But obviously it does happen and if the battery is in satisfactory condition, the charger will bring the battery back to 100%. The same is true for car battery trickle chargers. (the same was true until these new abortions) A dumb trickle charger will bring a drained battery back up to charge, everytime. And it is the method battery manufactures recommend.

You have that backwards. The "smart" charger has features in it for stupid people. Most of these "chargers" won't even start charging a battery that is below 10.x volts. If you think a battery below 10 volts is garbage, then again, you probably haven't wrenched on anything in your life.

Nope. That's called a float charger. A properly working dumb trickle charger is perfectly capable of bringing a battery back up to charge that has been drained because some lights were left on or something. And that is the method battery manufacturers recommend. And I have done it a million times. Maybe you haven't.

Sorry if my piece wasn't politically correct enough for you. Back to your safe space. I can tell you've never wrenched on anything in your life. Shop rage is perfectly normal. And the info presented is 100% correct. A smart trickle charger will not charge a drained battery.

Long story short, these pieces of scrap will not recognize therefore not even attempt to charge your battery if was fully drained. So if something was slowly drawing power from your battery as your vehicle was parked for a week+, and the battery is dead, hooking up one of these pieces of useless garbage will do nothing. With the old normal trickle chargers, if you drain your battery, you throw the trickle on for 24 hours or so, and your battery will come back to life. You plugged them in, struck the leads to each other to make sure there was power, and clipped them on. But but... you can trick your "smart" charger into doing what a charger is supposed to do a couple different ways, with a small 9 volt battery or with another car battery. Anyway I already threw my "smart" charger in the garbage (after smashing it to pieces on the concrete, very satisfying) and got a real charger.

A man lit himself on fire in front of the court holding Trump's trial.

How much extra did the LB charge for that

Ah yes. The good ol poverty and squalor in the 80's was great.

Never understood the idea of ketamine in a party setting. I always did it by myself chilling at my place

According to this place, all Thai and Chinese are reprehensible and all Anglos are fine citizens. Even the ones that take dumps in shrines

They do this in Canada too.

Yeah and most of those places are overrun with homeless and drifters. You'd have to pay for a premium spot to get away from them and you'll be way past 500

So this is Thailand's fault too eh. Pathetic

Sick weirdo

You could easily get scammed on one of those. There are ppl who sub rent small hotels. They run them legitimately for awhile and build up reviews. Then at a busy time of year , they they exit scam. They can rig the booking so that there's an unlimited amount of rooms. So ppl keep booking and booking. Then when they get to the location , the place is locked up and nobody's there. And then the scammed people try and phone into the booking agent to explain what is going on. And the agents don't even understand and the booking ad stays up. This exact thing happened to me on Expedia. The scammers had an add on Booking .com as well It was just a one night thing. I didn't lose very much money. But the frustrating part was how dumb the Expedia agent was. He could not understand what was going on.

3 posters hit the laugh emoji. Yeah so funny! Cretins.

It isn't illegal