Guest username Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Well, you can tell the sun's been getting to my head as last night before bed I decided as an "exercise in futility" to finally have a look at the old battery from our cabby.(The car, for those that don't know, had sat for more than 8 years when we bought it and recomissioned around Feb/March time and the battery was obviously utterly flat in this time and probably frozen a good few times also in the few harsh winters).Anyway, I got the meter across it and found 750Mv (less than a volt) hiding in there, and also got the ammeter between it and the charger to find it accepted a few milliamps so decided to leave my trusty Gunson hooked up to it overnight and see what happened.Imagine my surprise just now when I open the garage to find the charger happily shoving 2.5A into the thing and the voltage across the terminals after 5 min disconnected at 12.67V...Going to leave it on trickle the rest of the day and see what it drops to over a couple of nights after that, but major praise to the people at Bosch for making a battery (4BN with silver technology) that can stand for that long discharged and still even accept a charge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest username Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Still shocked, chucked the battery in the escort yesterday and it's been fine so far... Even coped with a heatsoaked starter and short journeys to the shop with the fan blasting on full haha... Bosch FTW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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