Buying an AGM online?
So I exchanged my new AGM chassis battery, and the next one is worse than the first one. I hope I can get them to give me my money back, we will see. But it seems that buying an ATM locally is not ...
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They be fulla shug-ah...
Even flooded calcium calcium WET batteries should check at 12.7 - 12.9 volts when they are fresh.
It's up to you about what to do, but I see a pimple faced youth in your future reciting the company litany if you try to warranty it.
Did you do the 50% discharged then recharge the battery at 14.4 volts until the amperage hits a brick wall? Somewhere around 6-7 amps?
A good AGM will only lose .2 volt static charge resting for three months on a shelf at 70F
Lotsa ways to test the battery -- CCA at 400 amperes draw, 15-seconds on an adjustable load tester (Interstate battery distributor). Impedance testing yet another way.
My opinion is to go-for-it with that battery.
Even flooded calcium calcium WET batteries should check at 12.7 - 12.9 volts when they are fresh.
It's up to you about what to do, but I see a pimple faced youth in your future reciting the company litany if you try to warranty it.
Did you do the 50% discharged then recharge the battery at 14.4 volts until the amperage hits a brick wall? Somewhere around 6-7 amps?
A good AGM will only lose .2 volt static charge resting for three months on a shelf at 70F
Lotsa ways to test the battery -- CCA at 400 amperes draw, 15-seconds on an adjustable load tester (Interstate battery distributor). Impedance testing yet another way.
My opinion is to go-for-it with that battery.
