[T3] Voltage

[Adriel Rowley]

The batteries I have been using are from Kragen.  I do not recall seeing a spark, and I have been R and R the cables a good bit, as I never charge with them connected.  Will check tough to be sure. ;)

Good to know about the battery color.  Will high voltage sufate a battery?  Might be a good thing it is not charging fast.

Why would my cores be bad?  Maybe I should rebuild them myself.  Though $75 for a set of your rebuilt cores sounds tempting... Just was not sure how things be at the time of the Invasion.

Adney, thank you for remembering she is a '71! :D. As you may recall, her beam is damaged, and I am trying to rebuild a '72 beam.  With your advice, I was going to keep the spindles on their respected beams.  It has been an absolute pain to get the late beam apart, and have yet to get it together.  

Another option is to hold off replacing the beam, and keep running it without the bump stops and keep hand packing the ball joints.  This route allow more time to be on the road, which she needs.  This might also be more doable as now I have type 3 Koni dampers, rather than the wiped out stock dampers.


Thank you so very much!
Adriel 








> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:27:04 -0600
> From: jadney at vwtype3.org
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Voltage
> 
> On 30 Nov 2010 at 9:53, Adriel Rowley wrote:
> 
> > > From: jadney at vwtype3.org
> 
> > > On 29 Nov 2010 at 21:29, Adriel Rowley wrote:
> > >
> > > > What is fully charged, 13.5 volts?
> > >
> > > Fully charged has very little to do with voltage, but if it will go
> > > over 14 V with less than 0.5 A of charging current then it is
> > > probably at least close to being fully charged.
> > >
> > That is about the amperage of my solar trickle charger.  Any other way to tell?
> 
> Measure the specific gravity of the electrolyte. If you can open the cells and 
> look down at the plates, look at the color of the plates. Ignore the paper 
> separators, which are usually tan colored. Fully charged plates will be half 
> grey and half dark brown. Discharged plates will be all grey. To charge the 
> battery that's been discharged for a long time, charge at a slow rate for a 
> week or 2, until half the plates have turned fully brown. During this time, 
> don't let the voltage exceed 14.4 V.
> 
> > > If it has been discharged for a long time, it may take 0.1 A for a
> > > week or 2 to get it back to normal again. Charging it faster than
> > > that is often counterproductive.
> > >
> > So then, why did you say at one point to use 2amps?
> 
> Wasn't aware that I did. I may have referred to the 2 A setting on my charger, 
> which actually settles down to 50-100 mA as the battery gets to full charge.
> 
> > P.S. Are you going to trade caliper cores?  I am trying to make a plan. ;)
> 
> I have lots of early cores, but few late cores, so I'm not interesting in 
> trading your unknown early cores for good late cores. Sorry.
> 
> Does your '71 have the late calipers? Most don't.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Adney
> jadney at vwtype3.org
> Madison, WI USA
> 
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