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a cell phone battery back up charger, hehe, with a phone you can dang near get anything you want.

if in the sticks, well then thats something different.
No reason to go thru the brain damage if in civilized areas, while it may cost a few bucks, the lack of wear and tear on your grey matter and body will be appreciated.

again away from the so called civilized world, well now thats something different
Rj

Ranger1 wrote: ↑August 11th, 2018, 10:52 pm My vehicles eat batteries here in AZ a lot. Both of my Trucks use 2 900cca batteries and the heat just tears them up. I just went down and bought a recondition one as a spare.

Sounds like you have a vehicle problem and not a battery one. Find out what's wrong with your charging/wiring and get it fixed.

It's the heat, Steve.

I have a 2004 truck I bought new. It got batteries before it was out of warranty. It's also has two 140a alternators.

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2 tool boxes
Boots
FAK
Blanket

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Jumper Cables
Water
Toolset
Spare tire
Gorilla tape

cougar / mountain lion
Crystal Gayle t-shirt
bandanna
bag of Lucky Charms
suitcase full of sweet, stinky weed

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XJThrottle wrote: ↑September 5th, 2018, 9:38 pm It's the heat, Steve.

I have a 2004 truck I bought new. It got batteries before it was out of warranty. It's also has two 140a alternators.

It's not the heat. 29 Palms sees 100+ degrees for months at a time and I never had any trouble keeping batteries in every vehicle I owned there.

If a vehicle is "eating batteries" there is a vehicle problem. Unless the person is buying underrated and/or POS batteries.

I spent over a decade in the automotive biz in Phoenix. Mainline Honda tech.

I've probably replaced a few hundred batteries in that time. Many while the car was in warranty. I'll stick with what I wrote.

XJThrottle wrote: ↑February 25th, 2019, 5:02 pm I spent over a decade in the automotive biz in Phoenix. Mainline Honda tech.

I've probably replaced a few hundred batteries in that time. Many while the car was in warranty. I'll stick with what I wrote.

Good for you but that doesn't negate the fact it most likely was NOT the heat that killed them.

By the way, a few hundred out of how many vehicles you worked on during that decade? 5 days a week x 52 weeks x 10 years = 2600 days worked. Even just 3 cars a day means you saw approx 7800 vehicles over that decade. So a few hundred (300?) out of 7800 is roughly 4%. Hardly a trend of failure and not all of those failed for the same reasons I'm sure.

People kill batteries without even knowing it by doing such things as nothing but short trips or multiple start/stop cycles as they go about their errands. Where the battery never gets a chance to replenish the amps it took to start. Driving just a few miles while running the stereo and AC full blast further draining the battery. Do that multiple times a day for months on end with no longer drives to bring battery back to full charge and voila...dead battery.

Ok so by what you just said. My charging system is just fine. My diesel eats a set of batteries every 1 1/2 years. Everytime under warranty. I run the sh%% out of my air conditioner sometimes I have short trips. I run dual batteries 900 cca. My shortest trips are to bashes 7 miles away. I start my truck and let it run for 5 min before I put my foot in it. Dodge says my charging system has no problems. I have 560,354 miles on my dodge truck. I have seen around 10 batteries go in and out of it. Heat is hard on batteries. That's why I have moved my batteries back under my flat bed away from the engine heat. They are doing better now.

If 4% of my farts require an underwear change, that's a problem.

4% of a year is roughly 14 days. If your car didn't start 14 days out of every year because the battery was dead, you'd be cool with that?

If that's a passing grade for you Steve, so be it.