When your lights are on and your engine is not running you are taking the power for your car lights directly from your battery. If you leave them on long enough, you will run down your battery and your car will not start. Then you will need a jump.
Yes... there could be sufficient charge to power the lights or other minor power consuming devices but still have insufficient power to engage the starter. Best bet is to take the battery to an auto parts store and have checked.
If you have power after recharging the battery (turn on lights) , If lights come on before turning the engine, and you still have no power, It sounds like your starter. You may have to take it out and take it to a auto parts store and have them check it.
take a battery cable off
if the battery is in good condition and the lights are standard then 3 hours might be enough so it will not be able to restart itself but this may vary according to battery size condition and lights wattage.
They might burn but they would be very dim and the battery would last for a very short time. They are 12 volt lights therefore it will take 12 volts for them to burn at the level of brightness that they should.
Check your battery connections. Also take your car to an auto parts store and have your alternator checked.
Take the battery out.
A click and no lights is an indication of a loose battery cable. Also, the battery may have a dead cell and won't take/hold a charge.
take the battery terminals off and clean them and the battery mountings on the battery real good and reinstall.
First of all is the lights working in the car? (over head lights or any kind of lights) If your not getting anything at all (no lights) then you should check the battery. If the lights are working then I would check your starter. Most of the time if you take the battery somewhere to get checked they will do it for free. So I would start there. Did you try to get a jump to see if that would start it? Hope this helped some.
Hello, Hopefully this will help. If you push start your car and it starts and keeps running then the battery is the problem. The alternator is providing power once you acutally get your Camry started. As far as the lights flickering if it doesn't stop after you get a new battery then you probably have a open in the ligting system. While the problem is happening (the flickering lights) take a set of jumper cables while car is idling, take the black clamp from the alternator frame to the battery negative post. If the flickering stops, bad ground. If it still continues, take the red jumper and connect to positive terminal on battery, then connect to out-put terminal on alternator. If the flickering stops then you have a bad power wire in the system. If your car has a PCM regulated Alternator then you may have a problem with the PCM.
remove the battery btw, your mom.