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Warm the battery up and full operation is restored.

As to cars and batteries, part of the problem (as you mentioned) is that
the oil is geting thicker thus increasing the draw on the already
lowered output. This is why batteries always seem to fail when it's cold
- they've been bad for a while, but the cold just provided the final
nudge.

Lauri Gardner wrote:
> 
> >
> > Interesting - I thought I read somewhere that one
> > should keep unused
> > (household) batteries in the refrigerator for longer
> > shelf life.
> 
> >From practical experience I can say that keeping
> batteries in the cold will discharge them quite
> quickly. Anyone with a car left in over -20 deg. C for
> a couple of days will attest to that. Nothing quite
> like having to push a car when its battery is dead and
> the oil has started to freeze.
> 
> However, film, coffee and coke improve by leaving them
> in the fridge *smile*
> 
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