[BC] Winter Survival Gear

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There are devices you can connect between the load (the RPU) and the  
starter battery which will disconnect the load before the starter  
battery is drained too far to start the remote vehicle.

Better than that, and what I normally do, is use a battery isolator,  
and leave the starter battery alone.  The auxiliary battery, or  
parallel batteries, power the RPU gear.  Even if the auxiliary  
batteries go totally dead, the starter battery is not affected at all,  
so starting is never a problem.

--chip

On Nov 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 18
> From: Craig Bowman <craig1 at shianet.org>
>
> If your battery is stone dead it most likely will not work.  I have  
> them
> in remote vehicles and when they leave the Marti on all night you have
> to have some voltage for it to determine that it is actually  
> connected.
>  I also purchased some of the cheap cigarette lighter chargers to use
> just to fake out the jump box.  This brings up an interesting point,  
> the
> new "smart" chargers will not work when connected to a dead  
> battery.  I
> have a couple of the old stupid chargers around because they work.
>
> Craig Bowman
> Bowman Engineering
> Local HDTV, Inc.
> 989-277-8835