Clore Automotive SOLAR Digital 12V Battery and System Tester

I never really had an effective way to determine the health of my car batteries. Now with the Solar BA9 the answer is only seconds away. For the first time I know with certainty if a battery is good, bad or somewhere in between. I previously thought that a good voltage reading was a great indicator of battery health. Not so! I now know that it is CCA (cold cranking amps) that provides the real answer. The BA9 tells you quickly if your battery is producing enough CCA's to be reliable and analyzes the internal plates for conductance at the same time. According to Solar tech support, any reading 20% or more below the rated CCA indicates a battery that is no good or will fail soon. Example: a battery rated at 1000 CCA is considered bad if it is producing less then 800 CCA. Knowing this information gives you a lot of confidence in the ability of your car to start. In addition the BA9 performs other useful tests, such as an alternator and starter test. This is a must have device. I also have a BA7 which is very similar except the BA9 has 3 additional but not essential features: State of Health, State of Charge and Internal Resistance. But the main difference between the 2 units is that the BA7 is using a 1 line LED display which is slightly more difficult to interpret due to the limitations of the LEDs for displaying text, when compared to the BA9 which has a 4 line backlit LCD display with plain English text. Some say the BA9 is easier to read in the sun which is a characteristic of LCD displays. For a great carrying case, see my photo of the Pelican 1060 Micro Case which holds the BA9(or BA7) the manual and cables perfectly.

We now use this to do a quick check on each vehicle battery at every 5k oil change/service. Here in Phoenix with the extreme heat, the wisdom is you never really buy and own a car battery, you're just renting it until it fails. Usually catastrophically and without warning. I was looking for a way to help predict those failures and this little gem is the perfect tool to help you to do that. It will display each battery's resting voltage immediately when connected. You simply chose the rating of your battery (usually CCA in the US of A) set the meter to match and then it quickly tests the battery with software black magic. No potentially destructive testing like older carbon pile units. With a push of the up (or down) arrow key, it will also give you more batter health information like SOH (state of health) and SOC (state of charge) It also can check your starting voltage and test your charging system. The manual is rudimentary at best but there are videos out there in tubeland. If you can connect the red clamp to positive and the black clamp to negative, it isn't a difficult tool to use.

Ok, So I have a an ABT-GOLD Plus battery tester... and when I bought it, it was $600.00! The device only tests SLA (sealed lead acid) or car batteries up to 200AH (amp/hours). I started to wonder to why a recent purchase of a 100AH AGM (absorbed glass matt) battery was only showing ~80AH. As a result, I went out an purchased a ton of different battery chargers over the last year and finally spoke with technical support at NOCO. Basically, they told me that no AGM type battery, of which there are flat plate and spiral version, can be accurately tested with the majority of AH testers. Now, the reason this is important is that amp/hours are the amount of current a battery can provide continuously until discharged. This is very different that CCA (cold cranking amps) or CA (cranking amps)... Car batteries and certain types of marine deep cycle dual purpose batteries (for boats you can have batteries that only run appliances, or you can have deep cycle batteries that can both run appliances AND start the boats motors) and they tend to have CCA and CA ratings, which are wholly different than amps per hour (AH) ratings. This is where the BA-9 handheld battery tester comes into play: - You provide it the type of battery (SLA, AGM, etc. etc.) - You provide it the manner the chemistry is used (AGM, for example, can have flat plates or be spiral wound)* - You provide it the CA or CCA (CCA only if the temperature is zero F or slightly lower, otherwise you use CA) - You hit the test button! The result is a very quick test that tells your how many CCA or CA the battery can deliver(there is also a european equiv that I'm not familiar with). In my case, the two batteries that were on battery maintainers reported 1064 CA and 1104CA, and they are 1100CA rated dual purpose AGM flat plate matt deep cycle marine batteries. This is really nice. It's also really nice because you don't have to disconnect the battery. The price is right, the product is versatile, it's small, and easy to use. Keep in mind that unless you are using it on a standard SLA (sealed lead acid) or classic car battery, you DO need to know what type of battery you are testing. Also, you need to know the CCA or CA rating of the battery to test it.

This battery tester is very convenient and appears to be accurate. I have no way of comparing it to another tester, but the results seem reasonable to me. The tests are quick and easy. I am satified with the product and would recommend it to others. My reason for not giving it 5 stars is the set of instructions that come with it. The manual is small so the type is small as well. Also, to perfrom all the tests you have to flip through many pages. This is hard ot do in wind or when your hands are wrapped around a dirty battery. The instructions need to be pared down, they seem to treat each test as stand alone tests, which they can be but I would think most people will want to go through all of them at the same time. I ended up typing up my own instructions to streamline the process. I would pay an additioinal $50 to $60 dollars to get it with a more advanced display where the instructions are on the display and tell you what to do and when to do it.

A battery slowly weakens over the years. This gives a way to see the health of the battery. Look up how to use it on youtube, you will save time. Made in Taiwan. It let me know the battery in my 2020 Subaru was bad before it would not start my car. It also let me know the new 750 CCA battery I got was at 695 CCA. It allows you to add the CCA so it can let you know if the batter is good or bad. I never realized the CCA slowly decreases and when it gets too low your car will not start. This is an excellent tool to have. I replaced my battery before it would not start my engine thanks to this tester.

Used this working at Interstate batteries for years. Good battery tester for the price, very accurate. Very user friendly. Quick results. It's has been dropped many times and still works 4 years later so the durability is good.

I have been working on my own cars for 34 years and battery, altenator, and starter issues are will make you mad. Especially if you let the auto parts store test for you. Now if you don't know anything about cars, don't want to get dirty, then it is fine to let them test your car with their tester. They will even put the batter in for free. Lots of times that will fix you up especially if you have an old old battery that needs replacing out of warrranty. Now if you are still in your warranty those tests are probably just going to confuse you as they will test "OK" and leave you stuck somewhere again. Also, get yourself a AAA memebership, just do it. You don't want to be calling friends/family or accepting help from that creeper or worse yet some know it all that will fry your cars computers. Now this thing is great. I trust it. Right out of the box it showed me my battery was BAD in the state is was in and it was just under two years old. It also tested my boat and camper deep cycle batteries AND some AGM batteries used in my computer UPS power backups. PLUS it tested my Altenator, Starter, and for ripple voltage (AC voltage traveling back to the battery where you only want DC voltage.....very bad for your battery). If you don't know anything about cars this is NOT for you, take it to the shop and pay a little bit extra and use the money you would have spent on this. If you are going to replace the battery yourself, the altenator, or the starter then you want to have this. It is the simple version of what they will use at the shop.

I bought a battery tester last year when my car battery was suspect. I didn’t know at the time that most have a CCA range that starts at 100. Motorcycles and scooters are often much smaller, so you can’t test it. This tester starts at 40 CCA, so is much more versatile and can be used on motorcycles and cars. Very easy to use and confirmed I had a bad motorcycle battery. It costs a little more, but the added capability will save you from buying a second tester like I had to.

Good product

Muy bueno probador de baterias!

Moitié prix que cher napa , ce testeur que je qualifirais une coche en bas du pro, tres précis et nous pouvons testé démarrage,alternateur et batterie (charge/vie). Parfait pour un personne qui sen sert une fois de temps en temps pour en faire des dignanostiques! Je recommande.

Awesome tool to monitor battery health. currently using it to gauge if my car batteries are coming up for replacement by using State of Health and CCA ratings returned by the tester. from the online reviews I've seen, the tester is pretty accurate. time will tell as my car batteries age as this tester can give me an idea when they are close to replacement

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