[Farmall] FARMALL H BATTERY DISCONNECT

[E. John Puckett]

Actually, a good battery will self discharge, but it takes many months.  
It has been a while since I seriously dealt with it, but I think it is 
something on the order of 3% discharge per month on a good lead acid 
starting battery.  That being said, I just went through the same problem 
on an old Farmall cub.  I had used it 3 days before, and all was ok, but 
went to start it and battery was dead.  Put on charger for a few minutes 
and all was good, used it for a couple hours, started it a couple times 
and good.  Next day went to start it and dead, put it on charger and 
would not take a charge.  Put load tester on it and showed bad.  Pulled 
it out and connected directly to battery, still no charge and tested 
bad. According to date I wrote on top the battery was 3 months shy of 5 
years old, which is not bad.  Pulled the battery out of my old H I am in 
the process of repairing and back in business.   Also checked for 
battery drain using a DC amp clamp, and no drain when all shut off with 
either battery.

As a side note, if you have the 4 position light switch with the HI - LO 
setting you need to pay attention to those settings.  Unless the cutout 
has been replaced by a regulator, that switch is the only control on how 
much the battery is charged.  For short operating times of only a few 
minutes and then shutoff it needs to be on high to keep the battery 
charged, but for longer run times of an hour or more, such as mowing, 
raking hay, plowing, disking, etc. it needs to be switched to LO to 
prevent overcharging the battery and shortening it's life, even boiling 
it dry.  Unfortunately, I have learned some of these lessons the hard 
way after forgetting them the first time.


On 10/9/2014 4:56 AM, Moe Fretz wrote:
> A good battery on it's own will not go dead.
>
> Why not find out the reason that the battery is going dead and solve that
> challenge?
> Moe​
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> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Richard Pope <popeman at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> Wow, I can't believe how many of you guys replied to my question.  That is
>> fantastic!  I have a battery maintainer for my Sears garden tractor, so I
>> think I'll just buy another one for the "H".  The Farmall is out in the
>> carport now, but once I get rid of some junk, it's going in the garage.
>> Many thanks,
>> Richard Pope
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