Recent content by 04GTO

Thank you Professor K.I.A.

Well, you indeed, you are "that guy". That guy who seems to assume he knows things that others do not. I have added my replies above in red. No offense, I am sure you did not intend it, but it makes you sound like a bit of a 'know-it-all', and nobody knows it all.

Nope.

Just what sorcery then also causes my multimeter to read differently at the jump posts then it reads directly at the battery posts? Hint for the slow people in the back: Current flowing out of the battery must overcome the battery's internal resistance and the resistance of the wires of any...

On each of my very well maintained cars, the reading with a battery tester is always lower when connected to the car vs disconnected. No fouled cables, no dirty terminals et al.

The Landcruiser actually has low parasitic draw, lower parasitic draw than any of my newer vehicles for sure. Which are all in the normal range. All these measurements are with the battery connected to the vehicle. Disconnected always reads about .2v higher, sometimes more with this tester. Same...

Today I completed my test, using the ip67 set on normal/recovery mode and attached to the Duralast Gold DLG-24F battery. Prior to this test the battery had been off the maintainer for 24 hours, though still attached to the Landcruiser. This battery had been connected to the BatteryMINDer 12248...

Finished up the mild customization: Here is the second Anderson quick connect I have set up with some quick release battery terminal connectors. This battery is the old battery out of my wife's car that has been experimented on a bit.

The IP65 was actually the first one that caught my attention. But the IP65 12/25 version is hard to come by and only seems to sell for at or near the MSRP. Where as the IP67 12/25 that I have transacts for quite a bit less. Settings wise they are identical, the only real differences in addition...

My favorite charger currently is my Battery Minder 12248. It does nearly everything I need a charger to do, with two exceptions. It does not do higher than 8 amps for deep discharges, nor does it have the ability to set a specific absorb time and/or tail current on deep discharges for proper...

Replaced the original AUX battery in my 2016 Mercedes E350 with an Odyssey ODS-AGM14 battery ($135 at Napa). Now my batteries are matchers, since two years ago I replaced the OG starter battery with an Odyssey ODP-AGM48 H6. I think 10 years is a pretty good run.

Do you know if yours is the older Odyssey charger made by Schumacher or the current model made by CTEK? (I have a bit of a charger fetish right now)

Update: After driving my car as normal for a week, I was curious if the battery was holding. I checked it yesterday morning before driving it. Still at 12.62 volts while connected to the car (which drops the volt reading by .2v +/-). So I checked it disconnected and got 12.81v (sweet). I then...

Out of curiosity- What tester are you using?

This is my first post on BITOG (please let me know if I am breaking any forum rules with this post), though I have been reading and lurking for many years. I am mainly making this post because I found a post on the forum that helped me really put some thoughts together in a very constructive...