Posted by Texasmark1 on January 08, 2015 at 16:53:52 from (99.197.214.247):
In Reply to: Re: Battery posted by farmboy48 on January 08, 2015 at 13:34:02:
Right at 12v, down from 12.75 before. I ran the test for at least 15 sec and the voltage held at 10. I checked my boat batteries at 200A and 10v, but since this was a diesel I thought I'd kick it up to 300. I use Rotella T full syn 5W-40 and had the clutch pushed in while cranking. Agree on glow plugs sucking on the battery but you can't help that.
I can't do any cell testing as it is a sealed battery and has some special kind of internals to prevent vibration damage and all that.
The www has a site telling what all is in the battery. It's not a piece of junk by any means.
One thing I didn't think of was a couple of days ago I was running the fan with the heater on the whole time. That could have made a difference in just how much the battery was able to charge. Don't remember the alternator output and to boot the tractor had been sitting for several weeks in the cold and I wasn't running PTO rpms, about half that or less.
Today I charged it till my Schumacher 10 amp charger registered 2 amps, when it turned on the green charged light, and then put it on a trickle charger. Will give it a go a couple of days from now and see what happens.
Thanks for all the replies.
Oh and for the Korean knocks another mentioned, don't knock it. The brand is Branson and I bought it after I shopped all the popular colors and would do it again. The model is 6530C with a Cummins naturally aspired 4 cyl 3.3(Liter) NA engine......0.046 gal per hp per hour, built by Komatsu heavy equipment in Japan. In case you never heard of them, next time you are on a large construction site, look around and you will usually see them and Caterpillar side by side. The tractor is built by Kukje heavy equipment in S. Korea. The thing is built like a tank.
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