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Unread 04-25-2007, 09:50 AM
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Default Re: Battery Question

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Originally Posted by spareparts
go to Harbour Freight and buy a load tester, get the obne with the analog dial, not the digital one. Its the best way to check a battery. You can also take a volt meter and go from the negative terminal to the first cell, then the first cell to the second, and so on. Each cell should have a little over 2 volts on a charged batteyr, any of them that is substantually lower than the rest of the cells is bad


Wow...never heard of volt meter used from neg post to cell??...are you sayin' probe into water or conact w/ plates or what ... neg to 1st cell, then cell to cell??


Does "Load Tester" you mentioned above work on Maint Free batts??...
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