On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

|!Hank wrote:
|! Could I be right in thinking that using a battery charger to recharge
|! a run-down car battery tends to reduce the life of the battery? On
|! more than a couple of ocasions, car batteries I have owned have not
|! survived long after I have used mains plug-in chargers to recharge
|! them.
|!
|! The reason the batteries needed charging was not due to any fault in
|! the battery; it was due to the cars having ben standing, undriven, for
|! a long time.
|!
|! Thanks,
|!
|! Hank
|!Not at all. However batteries that get flat enough to need a charger are
|!usually knackered by that fact.
|!
|!Once I get to having to charge a car battery, I am pretty much always in
|!need of a new one.

Not my experience! I left the car undriven for over a month and came back
to a discharged battery. Recharged it and a year later no more problems.
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