12v battery question

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Main Forum' started by Docdkay, Aug 29, 2021.

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  1. ChapmanF

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    I suspect it's really doing a CA test, unless you have a 0 ℉ freezer to keep the battery in for a while before testing, or you make sure to use it on winter days that happen to be 0 ℉, which would match an official CCA test.

    Or maybe the reduction in CA with decreasing temperature has a known formula, and the tester measures the ambient temperature and corrects it to 0 ℉ with math. I don't know if that's practical.
     
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    It has several other options, including CA (Crsnking Amps) though I’m not sure my battery specs that. Would there be a general factor applicable to CCA that would ballpark the CA?

    that said, testers of that ilk typically offer CCA measurement; they employ some method to make measurements at other than zero?