Battery drain
Texas Clodhopper,
A battery left alone will adventually die on its on after a very long period of time depending on its age and how much the goodies that make it work have settled out.
Now if you are lucky enough :laugh: to afford some of the newer jell batteries the problem of being left alone is greatly diminished.
The fact remains when you have two batteries connected in perrallel (guess its spelt right :clown: ) and the are not EXACTLY the same in potential, over time they will do whats in laymens terms fight each other. The greater the difference in potential when they are connected the sooner they will both be dead.
:dead: Its a fact of life and if there is any doubt get a couple of batteries and hook them up and watch.
If you look around in the boating and equipment stores, you will find all kinds of gadgets that are used when several batteries are hooked up in parrellel to keep this from happeniing.
I was not insuating that the problem the gentlemen was having was attributed to the battery hook up alone, as the way its draining down there is a strong user that has not bee isolated or a dead short, I was simply letting him know that there are better ways to skin a cat than connecting batteries in parrallel and what he needs to look out for.
As to being argumentative hell everyone likes a good discussion , we can learn a lot for our fellow man at times.