Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to OOF

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Low elec power  (Read 1698 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

omegod

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • liverpool
  • Posts: 4348
    • 2017 Seat Ateca
    • View Profile
Low elec power
« on: 24 April 2013, 18:40:10 »
Righto, battery fully charged ( allegedly), dash lights barely lit and not a sausage of cranking power, headlights etc not even powered! I did have it turning over very slowly but am getting nothing at all!

Can a charger show full charge but the battery is fooked? had a look at what earths I can see and they look ok as do the battery connections.

Logged
Happy to do Omega servicing etc around Merseyside,cruise activation, airbag lights sorted too...

Lizzie_Zoom

  • Guest
Re: Low elec power
« Reply #1 on: 24 April 2013, 18:45:02 »
Quote from: omegod on 24 April 2013, 18:40:10
Righto, battery fully charged ( allegedly), dash lights barely lit and not a sausage of cranking power, headlights etc not even powered! I did have it turning over very slowly but am getting nothing at all!

Can a charger show full charge but the battery is fooked? had a look at what earths I can see and they look ok as do the battery connections.

To me everything points to a flat battery. ;)
Logged

dbug

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Northants
  • Posts: 14279
  • Dont knock Linux!
    • Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio
    • View Profile
    • Dbug IT Services
Re: Low elec power
« Reply #2 on: 24 April 2013, 18:47:50 »
Or bad battery connections or earths ;)
Logged
1972 Ferrari Dino, 1967 Triumph TR4A, Mondeo 2.0TDCi Estate, Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio

omegod

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • liverpool
  • Posts: 4348
    • 2017 Seat Ateca
    • View Profile
Re: Low elec power
« Reply #3 on: 24 April 2013, 19:01:48 »
Well I will go to the foot of our stairs, battery shows as fully charged but is dead as a dodo!Never seen that before  :-\

Off to halfords for a new one, quite glad really as electrical fault finding would have been a nightmare :o
Logged
Happy to do Omega servicing etc around Merseyside,cruise activation, airbag lights sorted too...

tigers_gonads

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Kinston Upon Hull
  • Posts: 8616
  • Driving a Honda CR-V which doesn't smell of pee
    • Honda CR-V
    • View Profile
Re: Low elec power
« Reply #4 on: 24 April 2013, 19:17:27 »
Check all crimps on the 12 volt side, starter and earths first  ;)
Logged

Entwood

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • North Wiltshire
  • Posts: 19566
  • My Old 3.2 V6 Elite (LPG)
    • Audi A6 Allroad 3.0 DTI
    • View Profile
Re: Low elec power
« Reply #5 on: 24 April 2013, 19:32:37 »
Quote from: omegod on 24 April 2013, 19:01:48
Well I will go to the foot of our stairs, battery shows as fully charged but is dead as a dodo!Never seen that before  :-\

Off to halfords for a new one, quite glad really as electrical fault finding would have been a nightmare :o

Quite common ... :)  Charger registers battery VOLTAGE ... so if its got a voltage under no load of 12.7 it shows fully charged .. to work it needs AMPS ...  so, put it under load and the voltage just plummets to almost zero if the battery is FUBAR
Logged

omegod

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • liverpool
  • Posts: 4348
    • 2017 Seat Ateca
    • View Profile
Re: Low elec power
« Reply #6 on: 24 April 2013, 20:21:47 »
All sorted now, battery was 79.90 on the shelf and 55 .00 with trade card.

And now for my next problem......
Logged
Happy to do Omega servicing etc around Merseyside,cruise activation, airbag lights sorted too...
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.014 seconds with 17 queries.