With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

darkest before the dawn

2008 March 02 01:26

I have the battery out of my beetle to replace the battery cables, and while I'm at it, I'm going to recharge it, and clean out the bottom of the battery tray.

According to the hydrometer, two of the cels won't seem to I decided today to run the battery down to dead and recharge it; I seem to think that's good for lead-acid batteries, as long as you don't leave them discharged for too long*. I hooked up one of the sport headlights to the battery via some of the old brake cable hardware:

Tomorrow I'll recharge it and see if that makes a difference to those two cells.

*DO NOT DO THIS. This is very bad for lead-acid batteries!