{"id":7482,"date":"2022-12-14T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T10:08:54","slug":"carse-dead-battery-on-mx5-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7482","title":{"rendered":"CARS: CaRSE!!! Pt.1 &#8211; Dead battery on MX5 (again!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5647-1-1024x861.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7754\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5647-1-1024x861.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5647-1-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5647-1-768x645.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5647-1-1536x1291.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5647-1.jpg 1874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Not a great pic. But car is all frosted up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaargh! For the second time in about one week, my MX5\u2019s battery appears to have died\/drained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First time it happened I was in the middle of nowhere. Luckily for me there were a few houses about a 1\/4 mile away, and I was at a scenic spot where folk walk their dogs or just stop to look at the riverbank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A local chap tried to help me start with jump leads. To no avail. So I enlisted the help an older guy sat in his Merc\u2019, no doubt relaxing, and we all three push-started my little motor. Since which time she\u2019s been running fine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then this morning, at about 7am, getting ready to take Teresa to work &#8211; on account of the train strikes (which I wholeheartedly support; up the workers, and boo-sucks to our crypto-fascist Tory state), <em>nada<\/em>\u2026 totally dead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tried to jump start via cables again, with two neighbours pitching in. But no luck! After a bit of anguished searching, we located a small battery charger I got via Amazon Vine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The manual for the charger (a Noco Genius 1!) says it\u2019ll take 9 hours &#8211; trickle charging, I guess? &#8211; to recharge a 12V battery, such as our MX5 has. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, it\u2019s no work, as we\u2019re stranded at home. And instead I\u2019m going to do lots of practice pad stuff. Finger and hand technique: fast finger rolls, open-close, push-pull, Moeller, etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaargh! For the second time in about one week, my MX5\u2019s battery appears to have died\/drained. First time it happened I was in the middle of nowhere. Luckily for me there were a few houses about a 1\/4 mile away, and I was at a scenic spot where folk walk their dogs or just stop &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CARS: CaRSE!!! Pt.1 &#8211; Dead battery on MX5 (again!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[87,85,89,22,105,88,86,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1WG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}