Have a deeply drained battery that’s not charging?

Maybe your charger requires the battery to have

a specific amount of voltage before it will begin charging!

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that EnerSys® VRLA/AGM batteries (to include Hawker® and Odyssey®) are exempt

from the requirements of the International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Dangerous Good Regulations and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)

shops begins in January 2018!

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Typically, no! To effectively perform a “mechanics” load test, it’s recommended that the

load tester be capable of applying a load that is equal to one-half of the battery’s Cold

Cranking Amps (CCAs). So, if a battery is rated at, say, 1000 CCAs, the load tester should

be capable of applying a 500 amp load.

But, most handheld load testers are rated to provide a 125 amp (or less) load. As such,

they are very capable of testing batteries with a CCA rating of 250 (or less).

However, the Hawker® ARMASAFE™ Plus 6TAGM battery is rated at a whopping

1225 CCAs (though MIL-PRF-32143C only requires it to be 1100 CCAs). So, technically,