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Old 31-08-2008, 08:58 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by apstar
Maybe the battery is supplied by Aldi I start with replacing it with a deep cycle one interesting if someone measures the current flow with the car in normal park mode with everything turned off don't forget most equipment especially electronic security devices or chips controlling management system will not operate below a certain voltage to protect their circuits as with digital cameras/laptops etc even my DSLR camera pack it in and I believe it was the cold snap we had in Sydney all 3 batteries dead

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Generally speaking deep cycle batteries are not designed for 'cranking' duty so i would not be advising the use of these in cars. Having said that they do have their advantages and the turbo I5 is fairly low compression so should be ok.
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