Battery Load Tester
What are your battery load tester options?
Battery load testers for ups batteries
Load
testers for a lead acid battery
Load tests for a car battery / vehicle battery / truck battery
Battery load tester – Which one should you use?
If you own a car or motorcycle, a boat or an
airplane or even large, heavy construction equipment, then you need to
have a battery load tester available at all times. Having a proven
system will give you an accurate reading you can rely on. Simply
put, You need to know if you can use the battery you have or if you
should replace it with a new one.
Battery load testers come in all shapes and sizes
and depending on the size and level of volts you are testing will depend
on what size you will need. There is one proven
UPS battery tester No
matter what type of ups system you are looking to test, there is now a
solution you can count on. For the batteries of 3-140 AHR the SOC
will provide readings that are the same as full discharge. For any
of the larger type, unsealed, a hydrometer should be adequate to attain
specific gravity. The VRLA or the sealed lead acid VRLA SLA, VLA,
AGM and the like are more complicated and thus harder to get an accurate
reading and specific gravity is just not an option.
You want to use a device for health analysis of
your battery that contains a specific load application. Put
simply, the load applied will be commensurate with the batteries power
ability. If you do not use a load specific device when you load your
battery, you may experience false positive readings on weak batteries
and this could lead to many problems down the road.
A proven battery tester that applies a precise load and
compensates for temperature variance will make all the difference in the
world. Many of the battery
load devices without this feature will pass a weak battery, because they
are not exercising the batteries potential during the test. Many
other testers will only asses the voltage and not even apply a
predetermined load. If there is any voltage whatsoever the tester
will give a false positive and false sense of security to say the least.
You want a device that is sturdy, rugged and will
last in the field. A durable metal and the newer plastics
available today can withstand most of the torture technicians and
mechanics put their equipment through. However you always get that
one guy that tosses the thing off the roof. Not much you can do
about that. Almost all standard equipment manufactured today is
also water proof or at least water resistant. Depending on your
selection you may have a panel range to perform adjustments of 900 CCA
to 1200 CA and up to 125 degrees in temperature to adjust the
temperature controls. As an alternative the settings may be in AHR or
Ampere Hours. All of this is
dependent on which brand and style you decide to purchase and for what
battery you are going to be testing.
If you purchase and use a battery load tester that
gives you a pass/fail reading or a gauge that has a dial and a pointer,
there is just too much unforeseen room for error. Make sure your
choice is one with manual adjustments for load, temperature compensation
and the appropriate ampere hour or cold cranking amp setting.
Without the manual setting of
these variables, there is just too much room for mechanical error. This
is the recommended industry standard
battery load
tester
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