[AT] 6V and 12V batteries

[Ron Cook]

Dean,
     No changes necessary.  You are 12V positive ground now and a single 
twelve volt battery installed positive ground would be the same thing.  
2 sixes gave more cranking amps back when that tractor was new.  12V 
batteries have good cranking power nowadays.  If Deere built that 
tractor today it would have a single 12V in it more than likely.  I 
seriously doubt any Deere built today will run like that nice 620 almost 
60 years from now.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 7/6/2014 11:33 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> Hello, gentlemen.  Yep, no big deal indeed to have had that cable be loose.
> Not really visible in the photo but since the nuts were loose the post
> clamps had gradually worked their way upwards, and at some point just went
> too far to let there be any cranking current.   I tapped them back down with
> a piece of wood, tightened the nuts, and all was well.
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> The seller's son told me he just recently put new batteries in the tractor
> and it certainly works fine now, so I'm in no rush to do anything different.
> If those batteries die I guess I'd have to consider switching to a 12V
> system.  I assume I'd have to change the lights, regulator, coil, and
> generator?
>
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio
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