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Laughing Gas
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From: Georgia
What do you call this?
What is this? What does it do and how do you know if it's bad or not? I've had two people tell me it could be pulling on the battery and causing an overall drain. Everytime I drive it, the battery drains within a couple of minutes, after it drains I have to jump it off every time I want to drive it. I've had this problem since I got the truck and I know it isn't the alternator. The other day, I charged the battery and it seems to not drain anymore, but that's because I always unplug the battery after i'm done driving it (because i'm afraid of it draining again). Any thoughts? Thanks.
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2x on the horn relay and really don't think it would drain your battery. Sounds like you battery is junk to me. Unhook it and charge it up really good and let it sit for three or four days then hook up the cables to it and start it. If it is dead or relay low you have a dead cell. If it starts right up stop it and shut every thing off. Remove the positive cable from the battery and run a simple test light from the cable to the positive post. Does it light up?
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Laughing Gas
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Ok thanks that's what I thought, it probably wouldn't drain the battery. I bought the battery about a year ago and I charged it the other day and it seems to hold a charge fine, but I haven't really let it sit for more than one day with it unhooked. I will try to test it when I get a test light.
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Only reason I ask, I had one in my mothers car and was doing the same thing. I was a 84 month battery about one year old, I had taken it back to Checkers a few times to have them test it. Always checked out fine with there tester but a day in the car it would be dead. I looked for drain with the test light and nothing. So I had charged up the battery and left it unhooked from the car for 3 days, hooked it up and dead as a door nail. Took it back and demanded a new battery, ( I was really fed up by now ) and when he tested it guess what, dead cell. Replaced it no charge, and in 6 months after not one problem. So if they tell you it is good with the equipment they use don't mean it is good.
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Yeah probaly like they said the batterys toast.. my freind bought a 8d battery from some place put it in his loader and it was fully charged but as soon as we would try to crank the engine over(4 53 detroit i think) it would instantly die... took it back replaced it with a "new" and it did the same thing... not sure what brand battery you have but always go with a good quality battery.
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Yea I wonder if something in the electrical system in my truck that is making my battery go bad over time. I say this because; when we bought my truck we drove it home and it fired right up everyday until like a month later the battery was always dead. We took it to get it tested and it had a bad cell so we replaced it with the battery that's in my truck now. It seems like it's doing the same thing now. It was a good battery until like a month later after we bought it, it was dead just like my other battery was. We haven't tested the second battery yet, but it seems like it's holding a charge pretty well. Maybe I will let it sit for the week unplugged and not drive it either so that I can tell if it's bad or not.
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From: chana,il
if you take the battery to get tested don't take it to where you bought it first. take it some where else get it tested if it's bad take it to where you bought it and have them test it and see what they say.
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