{"id":26,"date":"2006-08-08T19:18:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T08:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/26-of-batteries-and-beta-testing.html"},"modified":"2006-10-30T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T11:56:45","slug":"of-batteries-and-beta-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/26-of-batteries-and-beta-testing.html","title":{"rendered":"Of Batteries And Beta Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"This little story actually began more than two years ago when I purchased a gen03 Subaru. I was delighted in everything about the vehicle, well almost everything. The poor excuse for a car battery that Subaru saw fit to include looked like it was going to cause grief, … and it proved me right!
\n
\nDuring a recent dive trip to the East Coast I was required to work with my laptop from the car. Twice I drained the battery with inverter to the point of not being able to crank the engine. I’m sure I was on-line for less than a couple hours each time!
\n
\nThe last straw was during a recent Beta Test of a new “in-car” product. All worked very well for a time until the prototype developed a fault in its power management and continued drawing significant current with the ignition off. A better battery would have held its own but the poor little 48Ah battery was stone cold dead two mornings in a row.
\n
\n\"yes,So, armed with frustration and the desire to FIX IT FOR GOOD, I set off to my local auto spares shop and began sizing up the alternatives. Thanks to patient but bewildered shop staff who helped me try successively bigger and bigger batteries I finally found one that nearly filled up all the empty space under the bonnet. Shaking their heads in disbelief I headed home with an Exide PDIN66, nearly double the previous battery in all aspects! Aside from a little bit of battery terminal re-engineering the new battery fit like the proverbial glove.
\n
\nHere’s a quick comparison of the “Factory” battery compared to my new powersource.
\n
\nBattery: P305C -> PDIN66\t\t\t
\nCold Cranking Amps: 305A -> 600A
\nReserve Capacity: 48Ah -> 110Ah
\nWeight With Acid: 13Kg -> 23Kg
\n
\nSo now I have joules to burn and the confidence to use all my gadgets without fear of being stranded,…for now!! \ud83d\ude42
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This little story actually began more than two years ago when I purchased a gen03 Subaru. I was delighted in everything about the vehicle, well almost everything. The poor excuse for a car battery that Subaru saw fit to include looked like it was going to cause grief, … and it proved me right! During … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}