Re: ihc-digest V6 #384

[John Hofstetter <hofs@domain.elided>]

>From: "Robert H. Hughes" <robhughes100@domain.elided>
>Subject: Battery question
>
>Harvesters,

>But have you ever had a battery 'break'?  Can the plates inside the
>battery come loose, or can the battery develop an internal short?  An
>intermittent open in the circuit?
Yes, yes, and yes. It's hard for me to picture an intermittent open.
>
>I'm experiencing some strange electrical problems that *seem* like there
>is an intermittent opening *in* the battery somehow.
>
>With tight connections all around, relatively new, heavy (2) gauge
>cables, and clean terminals, I'm out of ideas.

How about where the battery cable fastens to the solenoid. Been a common 
problem for me. 
Barring that, take the battery to someplace where they do a free test 
with a tester that has a built in load. 

Actually, even a cheap hydrometer can give you better information than a 
voltmeter without a load device. The hydrometer picks up bad individual 
cells.
>
>Rob H.

John Hofstetter