grahamdell
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I have always used float chargers on my cars that were not driven on a regular basis. The last two were Allantes and they really needed to be maintained electrically. Those damn computers don't sleep.
I found my XLR on a Sunday afternoon parked inside at a small dealer. He was not open but the door to inside storage was and so I entered. The kindly caretaker said take a look. I did. It was dim inside the car, no lights on inside the storage and a black interior, so I turned some lights on and explored all the buttons, switches and gauges enough so when it was time to leave the door switch did not open the door. Dead battery. I called through an open drivers window and the caretaker suggested I crawl out the window. Well maybe when I was a 120 lb teenager but noway nohow was I going to be able to do that now. I encouraged him to find a battery charger which he did. The engine lid was open and after twenty minutes or so the door poped open. I now know about the manual release.
That's along way of setting the stage for my decision to replace the battery. It is obviously not the original but no date apparent on the case to indicate its age. Researching the Forums I purchased an Odyssey 34R-PC1500T. My current old reliable Cen-Tech float charger says "wet lead acid batteries only" and "do not use on AGM (Absorbed Glass Mat) type batteries. Odyssey says "a 12V 2 amp trickle charger can be left connected" to maintain charge. And so what do I do?
I found my XLR on a Sunday afternoon parked inside at a small dealer. He was not open but the door to inside storage was and so I entered. The kindly caretaker said take a look. I did. It was dim inside the car, no lights on inside the storage and a black interior, so I turned some lights on and explored all the buttons, switches and gauges enough so when it was time to leave the door switch did not open the door. Dead battery. I called through an open drivers window and the caretaker suggested I crawl out the window. Well maybe when I was a 120 lb teenager but noway nohow was I going to be able to do that now. I encouraged him to find a battery charger which he did. The engine lid was open and after twenty minutes or so the door poped open. I now know about the manual release.
That's along way of setting the stage for my decision to replace the battery. It is obviously not the original but no date apparent on the case to indicate its age. Researching the Forums I purchased an Odyssey 34R-PC1500T. My current old reliable Cen-Tech float charger says "wet lead acid batteries only" and "do not use on AGM (Absorbed Glass Mat) type batteries. Odyssey says "a 12V 2 amp trickle charger can be left connected" to maintain charge. And so what do I do?