07-18-2006, 12:01 PM
white_2kgt Wrote:A battery w/ a dead short WILL NOT take a charge and start working again. One that was just ran down b/c you left a map light on will take a charge and start working again. What the OP stated, so hence there should be no reason why it could not have been jumped. It could have been drained so far that it wouldn't take/hold a charge but not contain a dead short. Usually when I make a statement to a question posted on a forum I am addressing the OP problem or one that I quoted, not every single situation that mankind could possibly encounter.
I've never seen anyone get salty over a discussion about car batteries. You must not get laid much. So you're saying that there's absolutely no way that you can drain a battery so much that you won't be able to jump the vehicle?
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth