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 A battery question
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06/09/16 04:07 PM
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kirbydog
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Bought a new 29 series deep cycle battery yesterday at Walmart. When I put it on the charger it read just 70% so I charged it up to 100%. Now when I put it on the charger again after a few hours it reads 90%. Thing is, just a minute on the charger and it is back to 100%.
Am I just getting a false reading from my charger? I've checked all the connections, etc and everything seems OK.
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Re: A battery question
[Re: kirbydog]
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06/09/16 04:09 PM
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bronco71
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I would have them load test it, sounds like it is bad
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Re: A battery question
[Re: bronco71]
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06/09/16 05:52 PM
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Stump jumper
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I would have them load test it, sounds like it is bad +1, I just replaced a WM cranking battery that was 5 years old but I had one that before that that I got a full replacement under warranty. WM will want the battery over night. I got in to a p ing match with the manager over mine and she finally relented. Problem was we all knew it was bad. Must be a WM policy.
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Re: A battery question
[Re: kirbydog]
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06/10/16 04:22 AM
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Fisher77
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Sounds like it has a dead cell in it. That dead cell will drag the other good cells down. Only way to find out for sure is a load test.
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Re: A battery question
[Re: kirbydog]
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06/10/16 04:47 AM
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dimitri
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i had the same battery load tested at walmart, autozone, and pepboys. only pepboys said it was bad. replaced battery and graphs stopped cutting off when i restarted big engine. now i always get more than one opinion on a load test.
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Re: A battery question
[Re: kirbydog]
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06/12/16 06:10 AM
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lakeman
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And you are checking it with the charger or going by what the charger shows ???
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