Here is a do it yourself plan
http://www.homepower.com/files/bat-o-meter.pdf
Dee Bee
GeorgeTelford wrote:You couls have the most expensive Voltage tester in the world and it still will not give you the state of charge on a recently charged or discharged battery.
The only way to do that with a voltage meter is outlined in my last post.
If you are out and about in a tear waiting 12 hours to check state of charge is a non starter.
That said you can with experience gain a little insight to the batteries condition.
Lets say that under a proper full charge test as outlined in last post that 12.8 is fully charged then 12.3 is 50% (roughly speaking)
If under load the meter is showing 12.2 ish switch all loads of for 10 mins and then measure it should recover enough to give you a clue say it goes up to 12.4 in that time then you have some usage left yet.
Supremely accurate? no, but an indication and better than most battery abusers do.
Sonetpro wrote:Theory is grand, but real life is somewhat different.
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