Balmar smart gauge and 10 hour AH testing
So this guy was selling an open box Balmar smart gauge on fleabay. They are expensive and I go by voltage to gauge my batterys by that. Well he had a make offer price so I lowballed @ $140. He didnt ...
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He can't get out of bed?
Why?
He's Dead
Then that means he can't come to work Monday?
screwing around with a battery on it's death bed is a waste of time, money, energy and intelligence.
At 5% amps peukert is about as useless as chopsticks at a soup fest.
People wonder if their battery has lost capacity. This test is absolute -- either it has or it hasn't.
I would JUST LOVE to find suitable gear to recommend an average user to test the capacity of their battery at the BCI rate. Care to hunt down a seven dollar kit to do it?
Then follow up with a justification that a BCI recommended test voids the authenticity and validity of the way I recommend doing it?
Peukert be damned. This is not a high amperage drawdown or recharge. See my notes in another thread about
CHARGE
EFFICIENCY
FACTOR
I fail to love or have personal commitment to any battery. Therefore when the time comes to pull the cord on LIFE SUPPORT...
Y A N K
Why?
He's Dead
Then that means he can't come to work Monday?
screwing around with a battery on it's death bed is a waste of time, money, energy and intelligence.
At 5% amps peukert is about as useless as chopsticks at a soup fest.
People wonder if their battery has lost capacity. This test is absolute -- either it has or it hasn't.
I would JUST LOVE to find suitable gear to recommend an average user to test the capacity of their battery at the BCI rate. Care to hunt down a seven dollar kit to do it?
Then follow up with a justification that a BCI recommended test voids the authenticity and validity of the way I recommend doing it?
Peukert be damned. This is not a high amperage drawdown or recharge. See my notes in another thread about
CHARGE
EFFICIENCY
FACTOR
I fail to love or have personal commitment to any battery. Therefore when the time comes to pull the cord on LIFE SUPPORT...
Y A N K
