[s-cars] General question - appropriate unloaded battery voltage

[Theodore Chen]

> > Yes, I DO know that the best test would be a load test, but being that I
> > JUST
> > bought the battery before NE S-Fest I just wanted to assess with the car
> > having
> > sat for a couple of weeks whether or not it was still holding a charge in
> > spite of
> > the memory loads of the UrS.

i use an optima red top.  for a while, the car was sitting for weeks at
a time, and i didn't have trouble starting it.

> You could do a quick and dirty load test by cranking the car while 
> measuring voltage at the battery.  Who knows what the results would 
> mean, but you'd have some useless hard data!

i'd just turn on the headlights (high beams), run the stereo, and run
the HVAC at maximum fan speed with the engine off, and check the voltage
at the battery.  won't be the same as cranking the car, but that's a
pretty substantial load.

-teddy



 
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