The poor batteries in newer cars full of electronic nannies are task with keeping their memories alive, 24/7, setting unused or driving, so, in the quiet of the night, you can hear the electrons being siphoned off.
A Battery minder is a great idea to keep pouring electrons into the bottomless pit of nanny hood. I do wonder why some auto design genius has not devised a "super nanny" that acts as a solid state memory card that preserves all the "magic settings" on shutdown and disconnects from the battery, thus negating the need for constant power. Why not have a "Key on, Power on, Reboot solid state hard drive, start sequence built in to the command module system"? Adversity makes opportunity.... Someone builds it and gets rich. On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 3:44 PM OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 2:01 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > Newer cars _hate_ sitting for weeks at a time because nobody is going > > anywhere. > > > > -- Jim > > > > Since it can be as much as four weeks between times we drive our vehicles > now, I keep them both (all three if you count the airplane) on battery > minders. I installed the pig tails and leave them hanging out the hood so > it's simple to just plug and unplug the minders. The truck is in it's > eighth year on the original battery and shows no sign of weakening. I do > have a load tester - need to test it next month when I do the annual oil > change. > -- > OK Don > > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to > pause and reflect." Mark Twain > > “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” > Wernher > Von Braun > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
