battery tester that actually works (AA, AAA, C, D, 9 volt)

DVOM is it.

You are right most of them are garbage.

I did a lot of research and I found these to be some of the best! I own 2

West Mountian Radio CBA V

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A Multimeter will get you some indication of the battery state, but by itself it won't show you what the battery voltage will do under load.

A product such as this will measure under a simulated pulse loading:

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+1 on the ztsinc. I use that one now and don't regret its initial cost.

Yes, but the question you should ask is how many batteries do I actually buy a year as opposed to spending some money on decent equipment that will work and last several years.

100 batteries a year is cheaper than the equipment over 10 years. Do a cost analysis using the brand of batteries you normally buy.

Dear Abby.

I have the mini for home use but use the MBT-1 at work to sort through all the batteries that we wind up using in the lab during product test and development as well as those that come back from field demos.

Have literally run thousands of cells of all different sizes and chemistries through it over the years. It's not perfect and has it's limitations (especially on non-rechargeable lithium cells) but it's more than earned it's keep.

The West Mountian Radio CBA V battery Analyzer's are a Real time Tester so you use it on rechargable batteries. most of the time.

If you run a real world test on non-rechargable after the test it's drained. You may do this if you are spot checking a batch of batteries

They sell adapters for all kinds of batteries but you can make your own for your camera batteries, AA, AAA,9V,the sky is the limit.

You can actually repair batteries with it. Some of my underwater lights have $200 batteries and I have brought dead ones back to life.





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Anyone do that? Is it for real?