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Show THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR CAR Watch Your Generator and Storage Stor-age Battery Carefully During Dur-ing Season Changes. PROPER RATE FOR CHARGING Great Care Must Be Exercised in Putting Put-ting Right Amount of Current Through Battery to Restore Energy En-ergy Contained In Cells. Due to the change of seasons from the cold weather conditions to warmer warm-er It Is well to see that the generator that may have been boosted to take care of the cranking conditions should be changed to take care of the cranking crank-ing conditions brought about by warm weather. It Is not necessary to bavins bavi-ns much current Mowing into a storage battery during the wanner weather as It is during the cold, because of the fact that the oil Is not as heavy and the engine Is not so hard to crank, says a writer in an exchange. The. gasoline is easier vaporized and the ignition lias more voltage, due to the fact that the battery can exert Its full energy. Change In Charging Rate. The reason that we advise a change In charging rates at this season of the year is because of the fact that a great ninny batteries that have been used abnormally at this season of the year and during the cold weather have been worked to their limit; In other words they have been almost entirely exhausted and to start recharging these batteries, even while ou the car, at a high rate will cause a rapid deterioration of the plates and also is liable to cause a great deal of trouble from armatures becoming overheated and burning up, also the regulator or cutout on the machine becoming overheated over-heated and causing it to burn out. The charging rate considered which Is proper for generators of certain types Is between 10 and 15 amperes and it Is not advisable to carry the charging rate higher than this because of the reflex action that this has on the generator gen-erator and battery and regulating apparatus. It Is always good to take Into consideration that the lower charging rate Is the better for a battery bat-tery tlitit has been worked bard than to start a rapid charging rate. Bring Back Gradually. There Is a very similar condition existing between the charging of a storage battery and the case of a sick man. Wlien the patient is on the road to recovery, the physician always advises ad-vises that the food be carefully selected se-lected and the patient gradually be brought back to his full strength. The same applies to a storage battery. Great care must be taken with the proper amount of current put through the battery to restore the energy contained con-tained in the cells. It is also advisable advis-able at this time of the year before going Into summer driving to have the voltage and gravity tests taken periodically so that the battery's recuperation re-cuperation will be brought back to a normal state without causing undue danger. |