I'd say buy a battery load tester. This is a device that clamps onto the
battery posts and puts a 75-100 amp load on the battery, then measures
voltage. Chances are one of your batteries has a bad cell.
You could just take a coat hanger, dunk it in a bucket of water, then
wire that up to each battery and check voltage but for $50 I'd go to
Sears.com and get the right model.
Chris
willaim att net wrote:
Hello Group:
My E12 has started to lose speed and endurance. The batteries are
old but all measure about 6.1 VDC after use. There are no warm cables or
terminals. The drive and mower motors don't get hot. The fuel gage goes to mid
red fairly quickly while mowing. It won't go very long in 4th gear. After full
timer charge the gage goes to upper 1/3 of Green. This degrading performance is
over the last 2 weeks. I'm thinking its time for getting new batteries, but I'm
not really sure that's the problem. Any suggestions?
Is there an easy way to make an electrical capacity test on a battery
using a certain piece of everyday metal, an ampere gage, and stopwatch? I seem
to remember that on a posting way back.
Thanks, Bill Alburty 66206
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