A useful gizmo ? A Voltmeter !
Posted: Sat May 27, 2017 3:54 pm
I was out the other day in a car that I'd been working on over the winter. The ammeter was showing near 30 amps charging even after quite a bit of journeying on a battery that was fairly well charged and it got me thinking about the regulator which had been ok before the winter but last winter seemed a funny one. Things that had been ok before the winter certainly weren't afterwards, mainly due to dampness.
I have fitted cigarette lighter type sockets to most of the cars so that things can be readily plugged in to charge or work and I came across a plug in LED voltmeter on ebay, £3.18 from a UK seller. It arrived today and I'm rather pleased with it. Plug it in and it lets you know whether the battery voltage is within the limits it should be, or not. Handy for knowing whether to be on summer or winter charging for the LA10 and handy for knowing just what the LD10 was doing with it having neither a voltmeter nor an ammeter from new. Just something that seemed Quite Useful even if not Quite Interesting ! Lots of other sellers have similar, this was just the one I landed one that was actually posting from the UK.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-24V-LED-C ... 0577&cust=
I have fitted cigarette lighter type sockets to most of the cars so that things can be readily plugged in to charge or work and I came across a plug in LED voltmeter on ebay, £3.18 from a UK seller. It arrived today and I'm rather pleased with it. Plug it in and it lets you know whether the battery voltage is within the limits it should be, or not. Handy for knowing whether to be on summer or winter charging for the LA10 and handy for knowing just what the LD10 was doing with it having neither a voltmeter nor an ammeter from new. Just something that seemed Quite Useful even if not Quite Interesting ! Lots of other sellers have similar, this was just the one I landed one that was actually posting from the UK.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-24V-LED-C ... 0577&cust=