From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 17:55:39 PST
My 1996 Freightliner's batteries will go dead if its not used over a period
of a month or so. In checking out the reason why I was told by Freightliner
that the computer does, in fact, draw on the batteries and it is normal.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
> You have been incorrectly informed. A defective alternator, military or
From: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Mutt Batteries 6TL
> civilian, will draw down a battery. A non-defective one will not.
> The defect is generally shorted diodes. There are several in an
> alternator.
> If one or more short out, there will be a draw. See an alternator wiring
> diagram, and you will understand why.
>
> apb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MISTYMTN" <mistymtn@gwtc.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Mutt Batteries 6TL
>
>
> | Hello -- I've been informed the military alternator
> | will draw current even while sitting.
> | I've been advised to get a "battery disconnect"
> | & mount on batts to eliminate this draw.
> |
> | Take care -- CRC
> |
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Bruce C. Beattie" <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
> | To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> | Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:23 PM
> | Subject: Re: [MV] Mutt Batteries 6TL
> |
> |
> | > Hi Stu,
> | > If I am understanding this correctly, you have charged the battery and
> | > then removed the
> | > charger(although this is not necessary, since you will still get the
> same
> | > symptoms). Now you are trying to attach the neg cable to the battery
> and
> | > you are getting a spark.
> | > What this means is that there is something in your wiring that is
> | > completeing the circuit from your positive
> | > terminal to your negative terminal. This is probably what drained your
> | > battery.
> | >
> | > it could be a device left connected, a ground or a short someplace in
> the
> | > wiring.
> | >
> | > Bruce MVPA 23824
> | >
> | >
> | > Stu wrote:
> | >
> | >>I put 2 new dry charge military batteries in my Mutt last summer.
> While
> | >>Mutt stored for winter they went dead. I put a 12v charger on to one
> of
> | >>the
> | >>batteries, and with + cable attached to battery, I am getting sparks
> from
> | >>the neg terminal when I put on the cable. Should it be doing that?
> | >>
> | >>
> | >> “Stu” Southern, NH USA “Live Free Or Die; Death Is
> Not
> | >> The Worst Of Evils" MVPA #14790
> | >>1967 M151A1 Jeep 1964 M416 Trailer 1985 M1008 CUCV Pickup
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
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