If what you are trying to do is charge the battery, then you must be hooked directly to the battery terminal with the positive lead and the negative can be grounded anywhere to the frame that you can get a good ground. If you have a difficult battery to access you can buy or make leads that come from the battery terminals to a convenient location to charge from. You can even buy a product called a Battery Tender that is a charger with removable leads included.
If you are saying that you cannot get power from the battery w/o the key being "on", then welcome to everyone elses world as that is how they work.
My advice is to charge the battery with a battery charger before starting the engine. You will be putting a heavy load on the alternator if you allow it to charge a dead battery. This could damage the alternator.
That is the purpose of an alternator. The keep the battery charged and to run all the electrics on the vehicle. However it is never a good idea to allow the alternator to charge a dead battery. This will put a strain on the alternator and may damage it.
Check the battery cables to make sure they are fully connected. If that does not allow starting, the cylinders may need to be re-shimmed.
You put it in the charger when it is dead or near dead and allow it to charge for two hours.
The Nintendo DS battery has been made to be recharged around 500 times, after which the battery life will be 70% of its maximum charge. The length at which a rechargeable battery will last depends on how frequently you charge it. For older devices, it is usually recommended to allow the battery to drain as much as possible before recharging.
is up 2 u! I just used mine, didnt make a difference
Gem Beeps When your Gem Vehicle beeps when you are trying to charge it . This means your pack voltage of your battery pack is too low to take a charge. Your battery pack needs to have a certain amount of voltage to allow your charger to iniate a charge. You need to get a regular 12 volt battery charger and charge each battery individually . You do not have to disconnect the interconnects on each battery. Just charge each battery for about 2 hours on the 10 amp charge and then replug the onboard charger . Eventually it should start charging. Now if you charge each battery and the on board charger will not come on you may have destroyed the batteries and they need to be replaced/
The Motorola Cell Phone Car Charger will allow you to charge your cell phone up to 90% of its battery capacity in a few hours.
Insulators - they cannot allow electricity to flow through them as they have no mobile charge carriers present. Insulators - they cannot allow electricity to flow through them as they have no mobile charge carriers present.
The reason why you have to charge a new phone for 8 hours before you first use it is to allow the battery to completely charge. This is what the manufacturers recommend. It usually does not take 8 hours for the battery to be full so you can unplug the charger when it is fully charged.
Connect jumper cables from the positive battery post, on your BMW, to the positive battery post on the charged every. Connect the ground together. Allow the battery to charge for a minimum of 10 minutes.
That's not a design feature, that's a flaw! When the lights are turned on, they draw power from the battery. If your engine isn't running to allow the alternator to charge the battery, then sooner or later the lights will use up all the stored power in your battery. simples.