How To Read Car Battery Health Indicator. The truck has been a garage queen since 2004 and is used only about 1-2 times a month driven 60 miles on each outing 45 minutes of driving time. If youre getting a reading with a minus in front of it -126 rather than 126 youve got the probes the wrong way round.

FIXITOK Battery Meter Battery Capacity Voltage Monitor DC 12243648607284V Battery Capacity Voltage Gauge Indicator for Lithium Battery for Golf Cart Boat Car RV Motorcycle Green 42 out of 5. Make sure the voltmeter on your multimeter is set to 20 DC volts. It uses three LEDs to give a visual indication of the state of charge of your car battery.
The digital voltmeter has 2 probes one red and one black connected to the voltmeter device.
Place the metal tip of the red positive probe to the red positive terminal of the lead acid battery. A healthy car battery will read. The terminals will be marked and -. Back in the 70s my GTV 2000 had it the GTV6 I had after had it too the 164 Turbo also had it the Datsun 240Z also had one.
