[net.auto] Heating the Battery in Cold Weather

grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) (01/26/85)

> My trick in cold weather is, before attempting to start the car,
> turn on the headlights for a minute or so.
> 
> Brian Millham

This could be improved.  Make well-insulated heaters, such as wire-wound
resistors, mount them in the battery cells, provide a switch to turn them
on.  The battery would heat itself directly.  Or, you could get a short
length of heavy cable and short out the battery for a couple of seconds :-) .
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