Re: (ET) How to tell which battery is bad.

[steves <ssawtelle erols com>]

You can measure voltage across each battery or measure the specific 
gravity of the electrolyte. My favorite tool is a load tester as it is 
very easy to use and will rat out a bad battery that may look good at 
'idle'. Usually on sale at Harbor Freight.

- SteveS

Perry Cain wrote:

> I think I have a bad battery.  My one tractor stopped working correctly.
> When I tried to go forward, the tractor would just jerk and the power would
> flatline hard when I pressed the accelerator. I figured I had a short
> somewhere, so I left it sit till I could get to it. So I was using my 
> second
> tractor.
>
> But since the batteries in the first tractor were newer, I decided to put
> them in the second tractor.  Now the second tractor is doing the same 
> thing.
> Thus, I assume it's a battery problem.   All the batteries have a charge,
> but I still suspect it is one of the batteries.
>
> Any idea how I tell which one?
>
> Perry Cain
> perry suppleye com
>
>
>
>
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