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Re: Check your Anderson battery connectors

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
I have observed numerous cases where a team wanted to blame the Anderson connector for intermittent power but eventually discovered that the true culprit was a loose bolt on the battery terminal.
I've been amusing myself going through some old batteries, load testing and checking resistance with a Battery Beak. Newer batteries had 0.018 ohm resistance. There were several marked "Practice Only" with 0.030 ohms resistance that dropped down to 0.018 ohm once I swapped out the battery cable and cleaned up the mating surfaces of the terminals with a wire brush.
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