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| Thread ID: 109006 | 2010-04-20 05:26:00 | Disconnect car battery | lakewoodlady (103) | PC World Chat |
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| 878547 | 2010-04-21 16:26:00 | The 9V battery idea is OK - for a short while . What chance does a small 'transistor radio' battery have in comparison to a legacy-type 12V - multi hundred-AMP lead/acid battery? If you are worried about the huge battery under the hood going flat, then there's no way in purgatory that a measly 9V battery is gonna hold up for more than a few minutes, hours or even a day . The Memory Savers . toolweb . com/pics/KAS295A . jpg" target="_blank">www . toolweb . com are just that - a saver for a quick service in a shop or garage to allow replacing the vehicle battery without dumping all the memory in everything that has one . Actually, we never used them as they are questionable anyway - 9V is not equivalent to 12+V and any slight discharge (inadvertently opening a door or hitting the brake pedal/brake lights) would dump the memory anyway - the 9V battery wasn't capable of much and was running on the ratty edge trying to hold it's own with just the ECM . We always used a gell-cell starting battery that had much higher amp/hours than a 9V with the appropriate connectors . If a battery dies in less than 2 months of non-use, then there's something wrong with the battery if there are no lights running somewhere . The ECM parasitic drain is almost infinitesimally small . I helped clear a defunct dealer's new and used car lot when he got eaten up by The Obama Federal Automobile & Screen Door Company and there were vehicles there that had been parked for over nine months - and 100% of them started on first crank . Sorry - ALL vehicles from Japan are so equipped lately - maybe a little more or less on a country-by-country basis, but frankly it's not good business to make lesser quality or endowed vehicles for export to countries that don't care for the 'devices' . It's too much inventory and dualist (triplists? quadruplist?) model stocking to keep too many different setups in the factory assembly line . I cannot speak of all the Euro-boxes however: They are still coal-fired and any semblance of a computer is prolly an abacus anyway . Not much chance of dumping the RAM or the ROM with that, now is there? Batteries too? I think not! The Lucas "Armstrong Electric Starter" is still in vogue . (Your arm gets strong using the crank . ) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 878548 | 2010-04-21 23:03:00 | And programming it is simple, logical and intuitive? For me it is. Don't know about anyone else who has the same one. You can even do it with the TV off. Then again, it's a Panasonic, not a Samsung... :lol: |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 878549 | 2010-04-22 01:45:00 | For me it is. Don't know about anyone else who has the same one. You can even do it with the TV off. Then again, it's a Panasonic, not a Samsung... :lol: Big diff Agent jap logic over Korean logic lol |
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