She's real good about exercise so I hope everything improves. She's pretty uncomfortable these days and as you know some days are worse than others. Winter is tough even here in the mild climate.
What did you do today?
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Right? Good thing I love those thin mints! I always mess with the girls by asking if the cookies are made out of real Girl Scouts. I love the look on their little faces.
Then there’s the Boy Scouts with their $25 bags of popcorn….
I just can’t say no to the little shits. As soon as I see them I bust out the wallet. I think I’m getting soft the older I get.
Don’t get me started on little old ladies! I’d give them my truck if they asked for it.
One of the Girl Scouts was my granddaughter.Right? Good thing I love those thin mints! I always mess with the girls by asking if the cookies are made out of real Girl Scouts. I love the look on their little faces.
Then there’s the Boy Scouts with their $25 bags of popcorn….
I just can’t say no to the little shits. As soon as I see them I bust out the wallet. I think I’m getting soft the older I get.
Don’t get me started on little old ladies! I’d give them my truck if they asked for it.
That’s sounds like a pretty short life for deep cycles? Should be getting at the very least 3 years with heavy use. With light use closer to 4 or 6 years? Something doesn’t sound right. The right charger is important. That smart charger might help. Always store them fully charged. If you were over charging them that could lead to an early death too. So could not maintaining the water level (distilled water).
I guess time will tell but I’m not sure you’re doing yourself any favors by knocking off 300 lbs. of battery with the same deep cycle lead acid batteries… I think it’s as true with batteries as it is with most things…You get what you pay for.
What kills them is 4 things.
1) lack of use.
2) weather ranging from 15 degrees to 130 degrees.
3) low humidity, drying out the cells.
4) only having the old style super charger, which has no maintain mode.
1) lack of use.
2) weather ranging from 15 degrees to 130 degrees.
3) low humidity, drying out the cells.
4) only having the old style super charger, which has no maintain mode.
Yup yup….That’ll do it.
The new maintainer should fix the lack of use…. Now all ya gotta do is change the weather…
The new maintainer should fix the lack of use…. Now all ya gotta do is change the weather…
Forecast, 70-80 mph winds tonight.
Get yourself one of these. You wire it directly to your battery so it's on all the time. It pulses high voltage spikes in the correct frequency to break the little sulfates off the battery plates. Sulfate buildup on the lead plates is what kills batteries, this little Gizmo continuously keeps them in solution instead of letting them coat the plates until the battery stops working.
The battery in my S10 was dying about 6 months prematurely, so I bought a new battery.
Afterwards after doing a lot of Internet research, I decided to do some experimenting.
First, I fully charged my old battery with my electronic charger.
I bought this 800 MA Battery Tender and the device in the video and connected them both to my old battery for a month or so.
I took the new battery out of my truck and replaced it with the old one.
The old battery is working fantastic even in the cold weather we've been having. Instead of dying 6 months early like it was doing, this battery is now four months past its three year life span with no signs of aging or dying anytime soon.
They sell these things to the government for military vehicles, it's not sleight of hand or a dog and pony show. If my battery keeps working till October, that will be one year past its original three year lifespan. Right now I think it's going to do that.
If you leave a trickle charger plugged in all the time you want something with a really low output like this one.
The video looks a little bit like a sales pitch at carnival but this is the unit that I bought. I'm convinced these things work.
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We only got wind to 21 today. It's only one mile per hour now but I hope that little breeze blew the cold weather away. Forecast has low to mid 30s for the next week or more but I don't believe weather forecast for more than 24 hours.
We had hail a number of times today but it was too warm to stick.
There's a lightning bolt showing on my weather station but I doubt if that means anything.
Here's what's happening right now north of you, Rusty.
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Has not hit us...yet
Looks pretty quiet except east of you.
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This battery maintainer also has a built in pulse doohicky. It was almost $200 and does everything needed to extend the life of the battery. We will find out...
I think I paid $50 for mine.
Anyone want to buy a brand new, 14 month old battery? Original owner, and has neen on trickle since born.
The tender and desulphators were about $50 each.
Anyone want to buy a brand new, 14 month old battery? Original owner, and has neen on trickle since born.
The tender and desulphators were about $50 each.
Yes yes. Those smart chargers are the bees knees! They know when the batteries need a charge and switch to trickle charge when they don’t. I have no experience with golf carts or 6 volt batteries but use the same 12 volt deep cycle batteries for my trolling motor. The charger I used had 3 separate banks, one for each 12V battery so they each charged individually. Worked great and let you know the status of each battery. I’m guessing your new charger should give you at least a couple mores years out of your batteries.
I need to learn more about batteries-- after I get the house fixed up more. Need to prioritize getting repairs done. I'm exhausted from yesterday. Didn't help that Mom fell last night and wasn't letting me help her-- refused every suggestion I made on trying to help her up. I tried to pick her up once but it pulled on her arms too much-- I couldn't get the right angle to get my arms around her middle and she couldn't get up on her knees bc she has knee problems. Eventually my brother managed to get her up. She spends so much time sitting that her legs aren't very strong and her arms are weak because she is so sedentary. She has never been one for exercise. She's been overweight since she was 22 years old. I need to find some way to get her to exercise.
I also need to exercise more. At least we made progress on the bathroom, but not as much as I'd hoped. Removing the old boards was necessary but it was harder than it looked and I didn't feel like such a wuss when I saw how hard my friend struggled to remove them too.
I'm trying to wake myself up enough to go to the post office to get mail, although, they are closed for lunch now. Won't open back up for almost another hour. I might nap a little until then.
I also need to exercise more. At least we made progress on the bathroom, but not as much as I'd hoped. Removing the old boards was necessary but it was harder than it looked and I didn't feel like such a wuss when I saw how hard my friend struggled to remove them too.
I'm trying to wake myself up enough to go to the post office to get mail, although, they are closed for lunch now. Won't open back up for almost another hour. I might nap a little until then.
I can only hope. At this Lake Havasu house, at one time I had 22 batteries that needed tending.
2- Warlock Powerboat
2- Pontoon
12- for 2 golf carts
1- Gas golf cart
1- Boat launch GMC Jimmy
1- for VW dune buggy
2- for 2 sea doos
1- my Polaris 330 quad
I've learned now that less is best! I'm now down to 7 batteries
Been there…Best way to do that is get a blanket or comforter underneath her. Then with two strong people on either side SLOWLY lift her using the blanket as a stretcher. Be ready to catch her if she falls again.
Sooooo, you’re saying you have the cookie connection?
I would need to be rolled out of the house if I was in your situation.
I'll have to remember the blanket/comforter idea. They also sell waist belt thingies with handles, but I don't know if any of the ones I saw are big enough to go around her. Saw a tub lift that lowers to 3" from the floor. It is rechargeable battery powered. You get someone sitting on it and then press the control button to lift. She complains that she can't get her feet under herself. If I can get her high enough to get her feet on the floor she can usually stand back up. My brother was able to get his arms around her midsection and lift her up and then fell back on her bed with her landing on him. She then rolled off onto the bed and was able to get up.
Today I took my brother with me to get mail. He went in to pay a speeding ticket he got (he hadn't fully slowed down by the time he passed the speed limit sign & the cops had a quota). He also went in to the foot doctor's office to make an appointment. Went to Walmart to get gas at the gas station there and my brother went in to get some groceries. I was too tired to go in. Popped in to visit our fiend and I helped him a little bit with hanging drywall.
Got home and ate a salad. Now I'm ready for a nap.
Today I took my brother with me to get mail. He went in to pay a speeding ticket he got (he hadn't fully slowed down by the time he passed the speed limit sign & the cops had a quota). He also went in to the foot doctor's office to make an appointment. Went to Walmart to get gas at the gas station there and my brother went in to get some groceries. I was too tired to go in. Popped in to visit our fiend and I helped him a little bit with hanging drywall.
Got home and ate a salad. Now I'm ready for a nap.
