Today was beautiful- it was almost 60 degrees the whole morning!

I was able to tackle repairing my fog lamps on the 9-5, which were weighed down by the snow and ice, causign the upper aged plastic mounts to crack and fail, got the back yard cleaned up, planted zinnias in the front yard, and managed to get two of the cop cars running.

The Challenger needs a new battery. The battery it had was flat when I got the car- but it was reading a whole nil volts today when I tried to see why the car didn’t want to start- despite being on a 2A charger over the entire last two weeks of snow.

I’m trying to coax it into charging enough to be a stop-gap, because I certainly can’t afford $200 for a new battery, just to clean up and sell the car.

Of course, modern battery chargers won’t charge a battery that is below a certain threshhold, since the uninitiated might try to blast the battery with a 200A “start” charge, and suddenly find themselves covered in boiling acid. Knowing better of this, I connected the charger to the battery, then stuck a lower-voltage jump pack atop of that to bring it up to 11.2V (Harbor Freight- decent hand tools, rest- not so good), coaxing the charger into trickling into the battery..

Tomorrow, hopefully it’ll have enough juice for at least one start- if not- time to figure a way to afford a new battery, since I need to move that car to get the other two out for sale!