Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Another Dead Battery

The other day while visiting the RV and watching Edith clean and organize I decided t start the RV as I hadn't done so since May.  No luck.  Nothing happened.  So I thought, I would recharge the battery.

So off to Canadian Tire I went to get a battery charger.  I had purchased a new starting battery about four years ago and it went dead from lack of use and then I picked up another one, I think back in 2010.  So I bring the two batteries to the office and try to charge them.  The oldest battery was not recognized by the "intelligent" charger but the one that had a bit of juice appeared to be charging.  Great I thought.  Ten minutes later, the charger went into error mode.  Drat!

Then I read some reviews about this so called "intelligent" charger and decided to pick up a plain jane charger as people had good luck charging completely dead batteries.  Give it a try I thought.

Again nothing happened with the oldest battery and the newer one was charging.  Cool!  Not so fast, the charger went into "overload" mode.  Darn!

So now I have two dead batteries and two battery chargers and no working battery for my rig.  Back to the store I go to return the chargers or at least of them and to get a new starting battery for Miss Esmerelda Tokalot.  She needs to get going again as she wants to have a bath.

Always exciting in the world of RVs and RVing.

Thanks again for dropping by.

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