{"id":13615,"date":"2012-03-30T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13615"},"modified":"2016-09-17T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:50:11","slug":"new-toad-starting-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/new-toad-starting-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toad Starting Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"

My issues with the toad battery that started in December<\/a> worsened to the point that I could no longer get a full charge and the battery was going flat every few days. Today, I finally had enough time to a) charge the battery enough to get the car started and b) get to the battery place.<\/p>\n

Three people told me to that the car to All-Tra Battery on 3rd Avenue South, so that’s what I did. Service was very speedy! I came in and said I needed a new battery. A tech came out, determined what kind I needed, and went inside to get the new one. He told the person at the till what I was getting and I was able to pay immediately ($89.20, including taxes and installation). When I went back outside, the work was half completed. Sum total, I was out in less than five minutes!<\/p>\n

I probably could have gotten a cheaper battery at Canadian Tire or Walmart, but when three people who don’t know each other and are in the automotive industry recommend a local business, I prefer to go there. I also know that going to a place that only deals in batteries, I’m going to get a fresh battery.<\/p>\n

I thought of inquiring about prices for a couple of 12 volts for Miranda’s house battery bank, but decided to wait until the fall. I’m going to monitor how my new solar panel<\/a> works over the course of a month’s travel to see if I have I have any surplus charging that I could apply to a second battery. This won’t even have to be scientific; I can just make note of how many mornings my battery is fully charged before noon and whether or not its overcast (if it’s overcast and I get a full charge, then I’ll know for sure I have a lot of waste!).<\/p>\n

I can’t believe I only have two to three weekends left in Lethbridge and that before I know it, I’ll have to worry about things like battery and holding tank capacities again. Can’t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My issues with the toad battery that started in December worsened to the point that I could no longer get a full charge and the battery was going flat every few days. Today, I finally had enough time to a) charge the battery enough to get the car started and b) get to the battery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}