Breakdown due to dead battery

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  1. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    You definitely should replace all your bat trees.

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    Haha. I was already thinking that some of this is driving bat crap crazy.
     
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    My total understanding about electricity is if I get WIDE AWAKE in an INSTANT, I got electricity.
     
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    Haha.
     
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    Where have you been for the past couple decades?
    Auto shop is no longer a part of high school.
    Those kind of classes went away a long time ago.

    Common Core has no place for Common Sense, after all.
     
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    A jolt from a coil pack is the only thing I know of that can give you wood and then take it away, all in under a tenth of a second. And BOY HOWDY does it hurt!!!
     
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    I've had it happen, but I can't think of it as hurting.
    It is a jolt, for sure. But very little actual pain.
     
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    I'm only three decades old.
     
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    Sulfating seems to only happen when there is a 23% or more difference in battery capacity - not accountanting for age - so most group 31 batteries are within 15% of capacity, but group 65 and a lot of agm batteries vary in capacity.

    Also agm batteries are charged differently than lead acid plate batteries.
     
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    You can park the truck and protect your job by listing of deficiencies on your inspection.
     
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