Battery gauge

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Express SN95

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Just recently purchased a 2017 Ram 1500 and noticed that the battery gauge is reading between half and 3/4. All my other Rams always read right in the middle, so thinking something might be wrong I googled it and noticed a lot of pictures of 2017-2018 Ram's gauges that exhibit the same thing. Anybody else notice this as well? If I press the up on the window switch it bounces back to half and then goes back. Did it go from being a "dummy" gauge to being more accurate now?

Before turning the truck on:


While on:
 

WilliamS

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If I'm not mistaken the gauge is rated from 8v to 16v. When running most cars run in the low 14 volt range so that looks to be about perfect.
 

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My gauge does the same thing, it did it in my 2013 as well. I kept that thing on a battery tender so it was always over half. You will see slight fluctuations on the gauge depending on wether the alternator is on a charge cycle or not for the battery. But it's within normal range!


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