A Damn Dead Battery. Now what?

[gbodyera]

Well I went to start my car this morning and the battery was dead. I thought it was the new radio I just installed. The radio blew a fuse, I swapped the fuse with a new and then took the radio out altogether. Spent all day on slow charger. Got it started took it for a 10-15 min drive. Cut the car off, tried to start right back up and the battery is dead as a doornail.

I got the multimeter out and its reading low 12's at the batt with car off. With car running the alt is reading less than 12v and batt 12.4-5ish

What could it be? My alternator is brand new and it has less than 2 hours street time on it.
Is the charging system connected to a fuse?

 

[king-david]

Dumb question.. but did you have the connections tight? Secondly... sometimes if you drain a battery down far enough, you cant charge it. Take it to your local auto parts to test it.

 

[beermonkey9417]

keep yer recipets! i just got a duralast battery with a 4 year warrenty from auto zone. my battery should last a year if im lucky :lol:

 

[gbodyera]

The batt connections are always tight.I Double check that almost every day.

I never heard of a battery being too low to charge. Thats new 2 me.

When I got this car last year the guy said it had a new battery and is under warranty and to just use his name.

 

[gbodyera]

Aww man. The fix was something so simple. When I changed out the fuse for the radio yesterday,looks like I left the power connector to the fuse box unplugged. I feel stupid.

 

[bowtietillidie85SS]

Rather have it be a stupid mistake then an expensive fix!!

 

[hotrodpaully]

glad u got it fixed now u need to put some new rims on it or at least take that yellow backing plate out thouse things are plain fugly

 

[gbodyera]

Na, I have some more wheels but Ill make sure I'll put them on every now and then just for you and a few other guys. Thanks