Monday, December 17, 2007

Voltage Measurement for Car Battery

One of my friend reading the articles that i posted in my blog, and asked me about how to determine our car battery is in good condition by measuring the voltage. I was no idea about this actually, therefore i get some advices from my mechanic friend.

So how to measure our car battery? Actually it is pretty easy and simple..Let me share with you and hope you will enjoy reading...

1. First of all, remove the ground (negative) wire and live ( positive) wire of the battery by using a wrench. It is important that you remove them from preventing you don't shock yourself while testing the battery and to insure that you don't accidentally short circuit the battery.

2. There are red and black wires at the voltmeter. Place the red wire to the positive (live) and black wire to the negative (ground) end of the battery.

3. If the voltmeter reads at least 12volts, your car battery has enough voltage to power the car. Else it is time for you to replace the battery with a new one.

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