Battery load tester?
Anyone have experience with these? Best ones for a reasonable price? Thanks DICK
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Now you will appreciate why an adjustable carbon pile load tester can resolve issues. I have found so many issues with dual battery Ford diesels using a load tester I lost track 30-years ago. A marginal terminal is REACTIVE to high amperage loads. it just doesn't sit there with the same impedance. Or milliohm resistance.
A friend of a friend had a 40' salmon boat. He was a retired PhD mathematician. You read about the other argumentative mathematician on a sailboat. Well Dean sat at the galley desk and tried his dandest to try and convince me his battery issue was so complex it defied explanation or resolution. Out came an impedance meter and an ohm meter. Then came the math. Diagrams and reams of calculations.
If X equals Y and O fits, it cannot be a bad connection. I listened to diatribe like this for hours.
I jumped on the dock and went to my pickup truck and grabbed my Auto Meter 800 amp load tester. Over his objections I connected the meter to a battery. The other 4 8-D's were in a forward compartment.
10-secods is all it took...
"STOP! FIRE! STOP! STOP!" he screamed. Smoke rolled out of a compartment forward.
Sometimes ya gotta take the BULL by the horns...
A friend of a friend had a 40' salmon boat. He was a retired PhD mathematician. You read about the other argumentative mathematician on a sailboat. Well Dean sat at the galley desk and tried his dandest to try and convince me his battery issue was so complex it defied explanation or resolution. Out came an impedance meter and an ohm meter. Then came the math. Diagrams and reams of calculations.
If X equals Y and O fits, it cannot be a bad connection. I listened to diatribe like this for hours.
I jumped on the dock and went to my pickup truck and grabbed my Auto Meter 800 amp load tester. Over his objections I connected the meter to a battery. The other 4 8-D's were in a forward compartment.
10-secods is all it took...
"STOP! FIRE! STOP! STOP!" he screamed. Smoke rolled out of a compartment forward.
Sometimes ya gotta take the BULL by the horns...
