I hope to get lock-up to store Beethoven my C15D Hylo. Lock-up does not have mains electrics. How best to keep batteries in good nick?
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Take her out for a spin once a month, or take the battery home and connect it to a charger....
I used to start mine up at least once every three weeks or thereabouts. Even if it was too horrible to go anywhere, I would let it tick over on the drive for 15-20 minutes. You will need to fill up with petrol if you use this method! LOL!
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Originally posted by jayjay View PostTake her out for a spin once a month, or take the battery home and connect it to a charger....
I used to start mine up at least once every three weeks or thereabouts. Even if it was too horrible to go anywhere, I would let it tick over on the drive for 15-20 minutes. You will need to fill up with petrol if you use this method! LOL!
If you choose to follow jayjay's method: be sure to make sure the engine is up to full running temperature before switching off to prevent acid corrosion damage to the engine. It is probably a good idea too, to disconnect one lead from (each?) battery to prevent discharge by damp conditions or any inbuilt items like clocks etc. while not in use.
Jim.
P.S. Incidentally, removing the battery from a vehicle in a lock-up is probably a very good theft deterrent too.Keeping people waiting is stealing a part of their lives.
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About the only tip I remember for battery storage between charges, is don't leave them standing on the floor in unheated premises. Freezing can 'strike upwards' and damage them. If you can't go for occasional drives, it would be best to store them at home, and charge regularly, or as suggested above, rig a solar charger.
Or you could sell them on eBay and buy brand new ones every season!
Good luck
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Originally posted by mary wales View PostThanks Guys. I like the idea of going for a wee run;at least until weather gets too bad then I can think of using a charger.
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It is a personal view but I have always felt that motorvehicles left to stand for too long without being driven do not fare well. Taking them out and driving them seems to the easiest way to stop things seizing up.
It is not just the battery leaving a car parked without movement does not do much for the tyres as well.... so then you have to jack the thing up... naaaaaaaaaaaaah.... drive it. And with electric hooks ups it could even be possible you would enjoy the odd night away.
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Originally posted by Tentpeg View PostIt is a personal view but I have always felt that motorvehicles left to stand for too long without being driven do not fare well. Taking them out and driving them seems to the easiest way to stop things seizing up.
It is not just the battery leaving a car parked without movement does not do much for the tyres as well.... so then you have to jack the thing up... naaaaaaaaaaaaah.... drive it. And with electric hooks ups it could even be possible you would enjoy the odd night away.
But whether driven or just run the engine should be THOROUGHLY warm before switching off.
Fuel burns to form water. About a gallon of water for every gallon of fuel used. The fuel also contains Sulphur (not as much these days) and that burns to form SO2 and SO3. Mix that with the water and you have Sulphurous and Sulphuric Acid. Which if not evaporated fully by sufficient engine heat enormously above the boiling point of water, will sit inside the engine gradually eating it away. It can reduce engine life by many thousands of miles.
Lesson over!
Jim.Keeping people waiting is stealing a part of their lives.
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