Battery load tester?

reminds of high school

i hated history until my senior yr
when we got a teacher with a sense of humor, who tried to get us to think instead of just memorize dates

Antler Rattling will chase me (and I guess a sizable number of other folks) away faster than anything. I counter-attack with an avalanche of absurdities. Anything suffixed with a question mark is immune to my sarcasm as long as it deals with a genuine RV tech issue.

Flat Earth Society members however, are in for the ride of their life...

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Some utterly sterile opinion-laden forums tend to make a reader want to end it all.

And makes other readers without a sense of humor very bitchy. :)

I had a professor explain her teaching repertoire. The use of humor when teaching. Her classes had by far the best bell curve in the university Dept. Droll unending rote spiced with colorless opinion numbs the brain. Some utterly sterile opinion-laden forums tend to make a reader want to end it all.

Chris Bryant wrote:

RJsfishin wrote:
You can take'm all away, except my voltmeters.
Once I learned to read a voltmeter (under many conditions) that's all I really "need".

Often worthless- I have seen many a battery read 12.8 volts, yet have near zero capacity. You *must* have a load bank for a volt meter to mean anything- the load bank could be a light or two, but by itself, voltage is meaningless.

Did you completely miss my statement...."under many conditions"??
There is very little I don't know about using a voltmeter.
The last 1/2 of your last statement is exactly right, and did insult my intelligence......just a little.

I find your humor up lifting. Some people just don't see it, unfortunate for them.

Or jam the plug in the jug.
At issue is online all the print looks the same and info bears the same weight until someone yells "Hey your zipper's down".

I try and use humor. For some it goes right over their head*. My daughter and son in law laugh until it (obviously) hurts when I pull a stunt and dose myself with liberal splashes of sarcasm. Mexican humor is often very dark and over the decades this has rubbed off. Well at least I got a first-class rating.

*Examine for age and aging. i.e. Date labels and receipts are often missing.

But the Clint Eastwood metaphor pushed me. I swear it. :)

RJsfishin wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Did you open it's mouth and look at it's teeth?

You're a perfect example of a first class idiot !

Please, don't reply to any of my posts ever again. !

RJ, You really should stay on your meds there son.

RJsfishin wrote:
You can take'm all away, except my voltmeters.
Once I learned to read a voltmeter (under many conditions) that's all I really "need".

Often worthless- I have seen many a battery read 12.8 volts, yet have near zero capacity. You *must* have a load bank for a volt meter to mean anything- the load bank could be a light or two, but by itself, voltage is meaningless.

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE...

Establish gravity right off the bat. Herb Tarlick is in charge of acid densities now. With industrial batteries initial fill specific gravity can range from 1.260 to 1.280

With car jar batteries, things get wild. 1.275 to 1.290

Total agreement with establishing impedance value when new then follow up with trends and tendencies.

Same with load tester after battery has undergone min (8) cycles. Difference is subtle but with digital meter resolution, it becomes a tool.

Thanks to a very astute member's link and most welcome post, informal capacity testing of AGM has become rational and reasonable