Re: VEHICLE LED'S
  By: Roy J. Tellason to Jason Vierik on Wed Oct 22 2003 04:06 am

 > 13.6-13.8 is considered "float" voltage for a charged
battery,  you could
 > consider that a reasonable minimum.  When I was selling batteries we looked 
 > 13.5-14.5,  with the engine running.  Some vehicles went even higher,  thoug
 > 16 volts was considered about the maximum acceptable figure.  Any higher tha
 > that and there were regulator problems,  especially if the battery was alrea
 > charged at that point.
 > 
 > And regulators _were_ a problem all right.  I saw some,  especially those fo
 > in Ford products,  that would leak current to ground when the car was turned
 > off.  Some would go dead short.  One guy with a brand new battery in the car
 > was irate the next day and had his car towed in to the garage because that n
 > battery was stone cold dead.  The garage brought it over to me,  and the
 > terminal voltage was darn near zero!  I did charge it back up,  and it
 > recovered okay,  the culprit in his case turning out to be the regulator...

OK, that makes sense because most volt gauges in cars range from like 6-16

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