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Charger for a Calcium Car Battery

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  • click86
    click86 Posts: 59 Forumite
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    That's right, it's the cheap 45ah calcium battery that's in this Ka.

    Hopefully it does turn out the battery is faulty and can be swapped under warranty.
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,926 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    The KA stop start system was a novelty rather than fully functional.  Seen threads on the Fiat 500 and KA when these were
    first released. Owners often taking the car back due to the stop/start not working. Dealer would often just replace the
    battery or just fully charge it and the stop start would work again for a while.

    Charge voltage on these can be variable which can drop the battery voltage over time. Not managed to find a reason why
    the charge voltage fluctuates.

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