Battery Importance

[Marshall]

I have had old battery's freeze that seemed OK if they did not crack. This was before all the computer stuff we have now.
most times, I would put a charger on them once or so during winter on the machinery.
One thing I noticed before I replace my 2014 battery, a few months before I changed it, if the truck sat for a week, it would be real slow starting so I would plug in a maintainer if it was sitting for any length of time. That would keep it at 13V.
when it was on its way out , I hooked up a toaster type of load tester on it , hit the switch and the needle did a nose dive into hell no, and it was game over.

 

[hemihustlin]

Hell you might as well say Maine is part of Canada

hell we could even keep the same maps just draw a little black line a bit lower with a sharpie in all the school books
everyone around here absolutely loves old orchard anyways so i think youve got a winning proposition!!!

 

[Hagar1]

I have had old battery's freeze that seemed OK if they did not crack. This was before all the computer stuff we have now.
most times, I would put a charger on them once or so during winter on the machinery.
One thing I noticed before I replace my 2014 battery, a few months before I changed it, if the truck sat for a week, it would be real slow starting so I would plug in a maintainer if it was sitting for any length of time. That would keep it at 13V.
when it was on its way out , I hooked up a toaster type of load tester on it , hit the switch and the needle did a nose dive into hell no, and it was game over.

I'm going to do a load test on the battery in my van today, The van is doing some weird stuff and I suspect the battery first.

 

[DanAR]

I have a bunch of old cars and I drive them infrequently so I have battery cutoff switches on them. I typically get about 12 years on batteries in them. Not relevant to this discussion but interesting what a battery could do if it didn’t have all the parasitic, low amperage stuff running on them all the time.