Crap Batteries

I’ve gotta say why is it taking soo much amperage to get everybody’s truck started.

My old 1997 n-14 with a million 175 cranks just seconds before it starts and this on a 20 degree day and it hasn’t been started in a couple weeks.

All my batteries were shot after I dragged the truck out of 12 months of storage.

I bought 2 of the $65 batteries from Freightliner and it has no problems starting with just 2.

Even after I was running out of fuel due to a bent tank pickup and constantly having to fill the filter and crank it for long durations I still had plenty of power with just the 2.

If I had a high torque starter I could crank it twice as long.

 

Yes I’m aware of this but just didn’t know which manufacturer made them. Not many car parts store out here in Cali sell group 31 batteries, only NAPA that I’m aware of. I usually go to a local Interstate battery distributor and buy what I need, usually get all 3 at the same time.

 

So how does this maxwell battery work, I mean, do you buy just one or all 3 ? So if it’s just 1 maxwell battery, what happens when 1 of the other 2 goes bad ?

 

deleted...I'd better do some reading on it myself.

 

Just read how it works. I went to Maxwells site.

 

It's not really a battery, it's a giant capacitor that holds a charge for your batteries, a helluva lot better shock of juice for startups than just a battery can put out.

You replace one of your 3 or 4 batteries with it, looks like.

 

Ok it is a starting module, installing it takes isolating the truck starter from the rest of the truck. The module is charged by the connection to the trucks electrical system, having the starter out of the picture means that the drain on the batteries don’t happens on start up and the stress to the batteries are gone. I have seen my battery replacement numbers drop to less than 2%, which means to me that the unit is worth the investment.

That said, two things that kills batteries one is overcharging, I haven’t seen the problem with my trucks as I have with my pickups but I’ve seen it in my WS in 2018. my newest Ford pickup is killing the batteries as it is charging at 14,5 volts all the time so this week my mechanic is going to pull the alternator and put in one with an external regulator which is computerized so the batteries aren’t boiling to death. The other is draining batteries below 60% capacity, which will kill them off. I ordered some lithium iron batteries for my house batteries for the rv and the rv does have the maxwell unit too. I’m going to see what I problems I have with these new batteries and think that trucks need to get them too.

 

Do tell us how one throws a charge on a battery a couple of times a year. Tia

 

Battery technology is getting better not worse. Maybe some manufacturers are building the old wet batteries cheaper. But that’s always been the case. Deka/ East Penn claim to have better HD plate. The only thing that makes any of them different is the plates inside. Cheaper batteries tend to break inside, and once the plates touch one another, it’s shorted out. Causing sulfur gas. Constantly draining and recharging starting batteries because of a low amp hr. reserve capacity burns them up. A slow trickle charge, is always better than a quick charge, for any battery. Farmer Bob’s taken a lot of flak for spending $1000 on dual use batteries. Fact is good batteries are expensive. AGMs and especially the new Lithium batteries. Technology keeps improving. For now, at least it’s expensive.