Goodbye Old Friend

cobraboy

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We have a major tour starting this weekend, and in our first-of-the-season tour prep I check and charge all the batteries. Knowing 2-3 are always bad, I went ahead and bought 4 new ones in anticipation.

Brought them home and got out my trusted friend, the high-tech digital 2/10/30/80 microprocessor-controlled charger/tester. Clamped it onto the first battery: F03 error, Open Cell. Hmmm. Not good. Second battery: F03. Third: ditto.

:dead:

Obviously, dead. So to Santiago we go in search of a decent high-tech charger. Ochoa, La Sirena, Bellon, several big auto parts stores, nothing but old school manual chargers and I want an auto charger/tester with a 2 amp. selection. And expensive! And I need one now!

So Alida called the store where we bought the batteries, yes, they have a charger they could lend us for a day. Great! I'll charge the batteries with it and have a guest bring down what I want. Off she went to get it, and this is what she brought back:

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The knot is the positive wire...:cross-eye No ground.

Oh, well.

Off to La Vega to get a small, "inexpensive" 2/6 charger (RD$1800:eek:) until I can get a high-tech one shipped in...

Don't you just love Dominican ingenuity in tools? :classic:
 

bachata

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I can do that! I do have the formula somewhere in my mother's house in Santiago.... all you need a "nucleo" (un insolador metalico de calor) alambre de bobinar y por supuesto la formula antes mencionada, la que te dice como calcular el nucleo en relacion al largo y el calibre del alambre a usar en ambas bobina - primaria y secundaria- para asi obtener el voltaje deceado en la salida (bobina secundaria) tomando en cuenta el voltaje aplicado en la entrada o bobina primaria..

I can convert florescent lamps from 110 Volts to 12 and this way you can use then with car battery...

Dominican proficiency!!!

JJ
 

bachata

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I can do that! I do have the formula somewhere in my mother's house in Santiago.... all you need a "nucleo" (un insolador metalico de calor) alambre de bobinar y por supuesto la formula antes mencionada, la que te dice como calcular el nucleo en relacion al largo y el calibre del alambre a usar en ambas bobina - primaria y secundaria- para asi obtener el voltaje deceado en la salida (bobina secundaria) tomando en cuenta el voltaje aplicado en la entrada o bobina primaria..

I can convert florescent lamps from 110 Volts to 12 and this way you can use then with car battery...

Dominican proficiency!!!:confused:

JJ

Spanglish!!!
It would be hard for me to put all theses words together in English.
 

socuban

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I have one in Santo Domingo, you're welcome to borrow it. I'm trying to remember the brand..............
 

socuban

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It looks similar to this unit but red in color, probably a sears or schumacher. I won't be back in the DR 'till Saturday, but I might be able to coerce someone to send it up.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34557194@N07/6329908497/" title="battery charger by socuban, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6104/6329908497_ae4033895d.jpg" width="500" height="216" alt="battery charger"></a>
 
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socuban

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This is it;

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34557194@N07/6329970031/" title="vector charger by socuban, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6110/6329970031_69fc6609aa.jpg" width="400" height="400" alt="vector charger"></a>
 

cobraboy

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This is it;

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34557194@N07/6329970031/" title="vector charger by socuban, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6110/6329970031_69fc6609aa.jpg" width="400" height="400" alt="vector charger"></a>
Small world. My "old friend" was also a Vector 2/10/30/80 charger/tester:

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I'll track down another and have it shipped down. The 2/6 manual did the job I needed done.

thanks for the offer...:classic: