Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

I put my amp meter between the faulty Interstate battery negative terminal and the disconnected negative battery cable and measured 3.63 amps with everything off.

Kyle, this duplicated your "light bulb" test.

With the new AC Delco Battery I measure 0.00 amps.

Guess my 4 years at University of Houston paid off?

So take me to school and teach me how that could be, Rick.

Seems like the only way current could flow through your meter is if there was continuity through the wiring harness back to the positive terminal, regardless of whether or not one or more cells were internally shorted.:confused2:

A Battery Tender won't keep up with a 3.6 amp drain; at least the ones I have won't. And expecting to cram 200 amp/hours back into a battery in just an hour seems pretty optimistic; wouldn't that rate of charge damage the battery? I hope you did find the problem, but I would run a load test on that battery in a few days just to make sure.

 

[RoyJackson]

2019-06-25, 0329

53 right now...high about 70 and rain today. This has been the wettest year I can remember...

 

[riptides]

72 outside this AM. Heading to lower 90's today. Thunderstorms just rolled through so I got up. Probably a good day for lawn duties and moving stuff around. Wife wants a loafing shed down so I get to move firewood and junk out of it. It has no purpose anyway as we don''t have anything that loafs here. Lol.
Have a great day all. Be safe.

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
a very warm 76 here, not quite as hot as Texas but a warm morning, headed up to 93.

unlike Roy, coming week looks pretty dry and hot. Looks like I'll be back to watering.
But not the lawn, it's growing just fine without any more help.

Most fun course I took at college was Electronics 101 aka Shocks For Jocks. Wonderful professor, was there eventually for almost 50 years
and revered(they named a big new Engineering Building after him), taught me the fun part of electronics, had to build an AM radio for a test.
Instilled the interest in me later on to buy and run a Radio Shack
for five years. I still love electronics but five years inside those retail walls was all I could do.
A triac Sir? Yes, we have a assortment of them. The functionality of some of what I sold was way over my pay grade, triacs, Variacs,
variable potentiometers, thermistors, but at least I know a dangerously small amount. So much has gone to IC integrated circuitry today, but I guess folks will still be trying to decipher the color bands on resistors til the cows come home.

Always thought resistors were like older socket sets, could never figure out the number on them.
today's socket sets have great big numbers on them. Resistors?...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, it's pouring with rain here, although fortunately we managed to get lambs off to market before it came down heavy. One advantage of the livestock market in Shrewsbury starting earlier in the day than the market that closed.

Jim calling me a plain "Pom" is a term of endearment .
I would only get worried if he used it with a few Viking verbs, or worst of all, called me a "Whinging Pom"

Rick, current flowing with one battery terminal disconnected only makes sense if the plastic battery casing was leaking and not insulating it from the vehicle chassis. Could you see any defects ?

 

[Buppies]

64 high of 88 big storms close by last night fell asleep on from porch woke up to thunder good sleep though and .34 inches of rain. 90s return tomorrow and rest of the week

Prayers for Toppop Hawkeyes daughter LS and his knee and all others

 

[Thomas]

53F cloudy upper 60's for high rain starting late morning ending late afternoon heavy at times.
Just putter around outside last evening.
After work do some trimming.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

Buppies
asleep on from porch woke up to thunder good sleep though
.....................
Gone that more than handful of times. :thumbsup:

 

[Buppies]

Very relaxing Thomas no critters though

Hope you enjoyed your time off

 

[Buppies]

Sounds like a place one would get a cold drink sit back and relax Riptides