Busted with a bad battery out in the boonies
Well, it took us 4 hours after leaving the main road (if that is what you want to call it) to get to the lake. A beautiful place! Gonna have some great fishing in the morning! Looking forward to a few...
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joeshmoe wrote:Bedlam wrote:that's not bad. Amazing actually. It's not so much parasitic draw with the power strokes, it's the the high amperage glow plugs that pull your battery down to 10.8V along with the ficm. I've gone through two sets of batteries in the last 4 years. The truck is always on a charger. After the first set which were interstates, I decided to not spend as much and want was some Walmart Maxx batteries they lasted just as long
My 6.0 PSD batteries lasted for over seven years before I replaced them. I had the XL trim with almost no parasitic load from keyless systems or telematics to run them down.
I also carry heavy gauge cables that can reach between the TC and truck batteries.
That's how I knew it was time to replace them - I had a ScanGauge II with one one of the parameters set to FICM voltage and could see when the batteries could no longer carry the initial load. My truck had the dual alternator setup which allowed heavy loads on the electrical system once they spun up, but you could watch the batteries doing all the work until the alternator voltage kicked in.
