clamb
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I recently purchased a Cub Cadet Zero turn mower from the dealer last spring.
It was a new mower previous years stock carry over. I only put on about 10 or 15 engine hours on it last year.
It has the24 H.P. Kawasaki FR 730V Engine.
When I was at the dealer it wouldn't start & the battery had gone dead over the past winter with temps down to - 40. I asked for them to replace with a new battery, & not sure if they did or not.
Anyhow it was parked in heated storage for the winter 14-15 Celcius, or about 60F. I decided to check the battery voltage & it was down to 8.6 volts, which I thought would indicate a bad cell in the battery.
I recharged the battery with a NOCO Genius trickle charger, & seems to be fully charged with no fault warnings. I will maybe take it in & get a load test done somewhere.
I have the battery disconnected, & thought I would run an ohm meter between the leads to see if it could detect continuity.
It was reading 24.7 K ohm.
Does this mean it has a dead short, or is that an acceptable Resistance/ Continuity?
Maybe it draws a small amount to keep the hour meter hours in memory?
It was a new mower previous years stock carry over. I only put on about 10 or 15 engine hours on it last year.
It has the24 H.P. Kawasaki FR 730V Engine.
When I was at the dealer it wouldn't start & the battery had gone dead over the past winter with temps down to - 40. I asked for them to replace with a new battery, & not sure if they did or not.
Anyhow it was parked in heated storage for the winter 14-15 Celcius, or about 60F. I decided to check the battery voltage & it was down to 8.6 volts, which I thought would indicate a bad cell in the battery.
I recharged the battery with a NOCO Genius trickle charger, & seems to be fully charged with no fault warnings. I will maybe take it in & get a load test done somewhere.
I have the battery disconnected, & thought I would run an ohm meter between the leads to see if it could detect continuity.
It was reading 24.7 K ohm.
Does this mean it has a dead short, or is that an acceptable Resistance/ Continuity?
Maybe it draws a small amount to keep the hour meter hours in memory?
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