What have you done to your square lately??

JamesSam said:

It charged during my ride enough to crank up again right after shutting off the engine to wait on my son. I got it home and now I need to go get my CRV.

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Are you going to slow charge it overnight?

DoubleDingo said:

Are you going to slow charge it overnight?

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How do you slow charge? Please forgive my ignorance.

JamesSam said:

How do you slow charge? Please forgive my ignorance.

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If you have a battery charger, use the low amp setting and it'll trickle charge.

Had a perfect fall drive in the Blazer today, after which I pulled it back into the shop and set the fan in front of it with the shop doors cracked open.

Wife saw this and asked why I was cooling off Billy (her name for the Blazer) like he was a hot horse! Told her that I was trying to blow heat off the hot engine so the shop didn’t become a sauna.

I pulled my truck up from out back for winter prep. Washed outside, cleaned inside up. Ordered brackets to get my rear bumper mounted and I ordered up a new grill as the 77 grill held in with zip ties just doesn't do the truck justice being an 87. Photo says file too large or I would share.

DoubleDingo said:

If you have a battery charger, use the low amp setting and it'll trickle charge.

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I think the battery might have a dead or dying cell. We went through something similar with my crew cab on Saturday. Got up early, breakfast at Whataburger (SOP for early gigs) and then heading across Houston to a toy show. Running the lights, stereo and heater all the way over there (cool front came in so it wasn't beastly hot for once!). No issues, gauge on 13-14V. Went to get the truck a few hours later to go load out, nothing but clicking. Got a jump and headed to the nearest location of the parts chain the battery came from last year. They checked it, sure enough, dead cell. Truck starts quicker than it has been, too.....
Earlier last week, we were setting and breaking high temperature records, then midweek a cold front came in and we went from 80s at night to low 50s. And old batteries don't do well with wide temperature swings....
We used to notice at the parts store, that it was quite rare to get more than 3 years out of a battery. We only handled good brands and charged every unit before it left the store. We always ran the highest CCA battery that would fit in the tray, checked the water level, and kept the terminals clean. This is in Houston, Texas where it's always hot and humid in the spring, summer and autumn, and can get fairly cold in the winter.