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Old 12-19-2019, 07:32 PM   #2
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Re: Minimal car use to maintain battery charge

Do you park somewhere that you can use a plug-in battery maintainer? These don't take much power but will keep the battery topped off and ready to go when you need to drive the car somewhere.



The starter draws quite a lot of current to start the engine so if you were to start the car to keep the battery charged, you'd probably need to drive it for 5 or 10 minutes, preferably at a time that headlights are not required and with minimal stop and go traffic (to reduce brake light use and idle speed).


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