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Old February 28th 05, 12:13 AM
RoyJ
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Putting a small charger on a fully discharged battery generally won't
work. You need to hit it with a big charger (50 amp range) for a few
minutes to get it started. THEN use a small charger.

Greg wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies, will check to see if it had date on it and
> give it an overnight charge, if dead does anyone have an opinion on Optima
> red tops, good, bad or a waiste of double the money?
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> "Greg" > wrote in message
> news:nBpUd.519892$8l.226545@pd7tw1no...
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>> I park my CJ in one of those 10'x20' grey plastic garages, was out
>>wheeling last sunday, and obviously I forgot to turn off lights, battery
>>so dead not even a click, stuck camper battery in and on come lights. So
>>question is, had CJ for 1 1/2 years, battery of unknown age, one of those
>>ones with green lights, ( no green there today ), is it worth trying to
>>charge it or is it shot? I've had dead batteries before, but not ones that
>>dead, 7 days of headlights on, so I don't know if a non deap cycle battery
>>can come back from that.
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