How to charge 360 battery after christmas

I'm sorry I can't help you with your current predicament but going forward have you considered fitting a Battery Isolator?
Foskers fitted one when I bought my car many years ago and I have never looked back.

 

i left a trickle charger on my 360 all the time it was in the garage to avoid exactly your predicament. they plug into the cigarette lighter and you can leave connected all the time as it will regulate current flow to the battery when needed and prevent any risk of overcharging.

 

Do a search for an Optimate III about £40 and can be left on all year if you want, they are a good bit of kit, never have a flat battery again

 

We stock a charger with cigarette lighter adaptor for £44.10 plus tax, part number reference MC3750/50

 

You can find the battery master switch on 360's in the luggage department. The only downside in using the switch is that when turning back on you will have to let the car run for several minutes so that the ECU's can be re-initialised, you will also have to reset the stereo memory etc.

The other thing to bear in mind is that when turning off the master switch you are also turning off the alarm system, so better check with your insurance company.
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Of course, my old girl hasn't any of these new fangled electronic aids.
Plus 8-track Tape Decks don't need memory.

 

Not a bad thing, at least when something goes wrong it can be fixed easily and not cost a fortune.

 

But you should try finding 8-track tapes - the staff in the Virgin Megastore haven't a clue ;-)

 

Yeh, like rocking horse **** - car boot sales are a better bet

 

You probably need 0.5" or 1" tape. Should be available through shops that sell recording studios stuff - even home recording. There are quite a few on Charing Cross road in London I think.

First time I heard of someone having an 8 track in the car...

Sorry for the thread hijack.

 

Hi,
I haven't got an 8-track tape deck but apparently they use 1/4" tape - and as this website (http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/8track1.htm) states in its opening paragraph - 'it has become an icon of obsolescence'
I was amazed that anyone remembered them!

 

Thanks for the hint, I would appreciate to know more as where and who is we you are referring to (can not find Ferrari_Tech on the Net), as I was about to use my Porsche cigarette lighter adaptor but realised that I am technicly useless and could cause a problem as I do not know what Voltage is my 360 etc.! so I would like to buy one too.

 

I used my porsche (cig lighter) trickle charger (it was less than £40 four years ago and it was a stock item at the OPC in East London) in my 355 without any problems and have used it for around a year or so now on my Gallardo without a problem. Its a 12v negative earth device. Your owners guide should confirm that the 360 is a 12v -ve earth vehicle

 

I have used 8 trackes with both 1" and 0.5" in recording sudios as late as 1995 I guess. There were still popular in small, semi-pro and audio-for-video studios. Though even back then they were being phased out by PC / Mac based digital multi channel recording devices.

Nothing come close in term of sound quality to these old analogue tapes, especially the 1" running 30 IPS.

 

Page 5.19 of my 360 Owners Manual says "Do not use devices to be conected to the cigar-lighter".

Page 5.18 advises that you should disconnect the terminals from the battery poles before charging.

Is this just being ulta cautious or is charging in any other way a risk?