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Well, there are other chargers if I have to go down that road. Thanks, though didn't knew of this option.
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My dad was a mechanic for 40+ years (and I know I've posted plenty of messages starting with this exact same sentence), and used to go to training courses pretty much every year. Decades ago, when manufacturers started putting computers in cars, he had a teacher tell them that, with the number of computers in a car each drawing a little bit of current 24/7, it was considered "absolutely to be expected" that a battery would be drained in as little as 21 days of no use, even when brand new.
There's a lot more electronics in cars nowadays, but OTOH they're also a lot more power-efficient than they used to be. But still, the story holds true - the manufacturer will tell you it's not a defect if the battery in your brand new car consistently gets drained after X many weeks of no use.
Go on a long drive, and as long as the engine is running and the alternator is doing its job, it doesn't matter if you're using accessories as you're driving around.
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Disconnect the battery when you plan to have your car stopped for a long time.
That should avoid it to be drained.
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Joan M wrote: Disconnect the battery when you plan to have your car stopped for a long time.
Thats a neat idea I can try of next time. For now, don't have that option.
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I've been working from home since before I bought my current vehicle 10 years ago. Even with a dozen or so trips of > 1K miles round trip, it's only just rolled the odometer to 35K miles. The battery needs a good trickle charging (2 amp) at least once a month or it will get weak enough to cause problems. I'd advise to spend a little extra on a nice charger that gives multiple settings including the 50 amp starting output. The only problem I have with mine 'currently' is the cheap clamp/wire connections which get pretty hot on the 50 amp setting! 
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Thanks for the advice. I will wait for one more instance of it and then probably go for something like what you share.
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I use something similar to this: Dino-Kraftpaket Autobatterie-Ladegerät 6V/12V-4A, 136311, 6 V /12 V, 4 A, mit Batterie-Prüffunktion - B�ttcher AG[^]
Usually use it to re-load the batteries over night in the coldest part of the winter.
I once used it "in hurry" I could start the car after 3 minutes, then the 50 km trip did the rest for the day, that night I connected it again... problem gone.
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Thanks for sharing. Don't think will find one here in India.
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4 amps? My Surface charger pumps out about that! 
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Mine is actually 3,8 A (around 8 years old).
But it works like charm.
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But more slowly - and the start function on this thing has to be seen to be believed. Most cars have a 80+ Ah battery, this thing just goes "hold my beer" and scares the car into starting on the first turn of the key!
Overkill, most definitely - but in a damn good way 
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The start function is mostly needed when you are not at home, do you carry that in your car trunk the whole winter?
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No, it's used at home only - it plugs into the mains, there is no internal battery. Which is fine - I used to have a "starter box" and it was always flat when I wanted to use it ...
At home is the most likely place to need it: early morning when it's well below zero, so the battery is at its worst and the engine is hardest to turn over.
Run the long extension cable to the car, attach this, and vroom. It's started, Herself can get to work, and the car can be charged by the alternator, or removed (which is a PITA) and charged indoors.
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OriginalGriff wrote: or removed (which is a PITA) and charged indoors.
That's the point of mine... I don't need to remove the battery and I don't get it empty because I just connect it during the night one or two times over winter with a maintenance program.
I find it more comfortable to do it like this than "on real demand"
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I don't worry about my 12V going dead from dis-use. I have a 18.4 KWh battery that keeps it charged and I keep that battery plugged in. 
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That sounds like an electric car.
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Is it really necessary for Visual Studio to ask me, multiple times a day, to sign into Azure DevOps whenever it looks for updates, Nuget downloads, or the direction of the wind changes?
I've signed in. Write it down on a piece of paper or something. It's not hard.
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Nah. Piece of paper doesn't cut it. Must be a non-yellow post-it on the bottom left corner of your primary monitor.
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What? No Windows Hello via your webcam?
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Yes, an imposter could sneak behind your PC while you are off drinking coffee and do unspeakable things 
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As long as they're wearing a mask I'd appreciate the variety in my day.
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I'm betting you launch VS using a profile with CredentialsA, and have to provide CredentialsB for Azure DevOps, and it's getting confused between the two so it has to ask you Every. Single. Time.
One of my VMs with VS used to be set up exactly this way, and it gets really annoying, really fast. Eventually it was changed so it's now set up so I login with the same credentials VS has to provide to DevOps - and it's been pretty quiet ever since.
I do realize however that you might not have the luxury of being able to change your local user profile in that way. In which case I have no good suggestion. Bouncing back and forth between multiple accounts has been the bane of my existence since, well...since operating systems have needed to uniquely identify users. It sucks.
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Yep, Although it's worse. I have profile A and profile B. But also Profile C that has the same email address as profile A, but is considered a "work" account. Or a personal account. I can't keep them straight. The "sign in" box comes up and it doesn't tell me which account it wants. I usually just hit profile B since it's easiest, and it stops complaining. For a bit.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I have profile A and profile B
I have this too, on Azure, Azure DevOps and Visual Studio (you can sign in with multiple accounts in Visual Studio and use them simultaneously).
Chris Maunder wrote: But also Profile C that has the same email address as profile A, but is considered a "work" account
This is the problem.
I had that too and Azure DevOps had the same problem.
I somehow got rid of the dual account, which is now 100% personal, and I switched to another email with my work account, and I haven't had problems since.
It's so bad I had to bitch about it in my latest book, Azure DevOps Succinctly.
This is from the part "Creating a Microsoft account":
"Note: Microsoft has really messed up account creation in the past. Personally, I still have an email address that is used for both a personal and a work account and I have no way of seeing in which account I am logged in to. Sometimes I have to switch accounts which is just logging in again with the same email address. To fix this issue, Microsoft has disabled registration with a work or school email address. In practice, this means any email from a domain that is configured in an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD). So, if you have an email address myname@mycompany.com and want to use it at this point, you may be out of luck. No worries though, you can still use it later. You can read more about this issue here: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-finally-blocking-users-creating-microsoft-account-work-email-address/."
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