Flat Battery

[vmail]

How long will it take to fully charge a Battery from flat?

[ninjin]

depends how many amps your charger is. But if you Battery is in good condition, you should be ample to jump start it and then if you take it for a 30min drive it should charge up enough for you to start it next time. So long as you drive it every day. If you got a proper Battery charger, then normally trickle charge over night.

May be cheaper and easier to just buy a new one from a motor factors for under £30.

Al.

[Kenno]

Does anyone know how good the Yaris batteries are for staying charged?

Mine was flat when I went to test drive the car at the garage - they said they'd done it on purpose to stop it being nicked - but I don't think they'd done it on any of their other cars!

I've got GPS on a pocket PC so I plug that in via the ciggie lighter (no idea how much Battery this uses), and I only tend to do short journeys (and not every day).

[vmail]

depend on how much amp/hr the pc and gps uses, dunno if the cig lighter works with the ignition off, I would wire up the system to the ignition circuit.

I put the Battery on a 6AMP charger for an hour, then Ive taken the are on the motoway, been driving in a low gear to keep the revs up (used up about 2 gallons of petrol)

[jaxx]

has it been flat for a while?

[vmail]

probably flat for 6 days

[jaxx]

if it was totally discharged it will be nackered and will never hold its charge properly again

will need replacing

[vmail]

seems to be ok(not fully charged yet), not been using the radio