deepNdirt
Veteran Member
Yesterday my wife was at the local flea market and called to tell me about a man there is selling used/refurbed car batteries, said to have a 1 - year old 550 cca battery from Walmrt for 20.00, I had her go ahead and get it, I have plans to sale my Roper tractor and didn't want to let my New battery go with it, This used 20.00 battery would provide the replacement It needed,
Now here comes the mystery:confused2:.... the first thing I done was to put this battery on my load tester, the needle never moved and was as if the battery was dead flat, so I went for the old school field test, arc the Pos/neg terminals together and boy was it hot, almost could weld with it, I just thought perhaps the tester might have went bad or a wire come loose inside,............ Ok on to changing out the batteries, now keep in mind I haven't started the tractor in several weeks though last time I did it was working good, So I did a quick swap of the 2 batteries, Now I'm on to starting the tractor and nothing happens, I double check all connection and everything thing is good, So I decide to cross out the Solenoid in attempt to start the tractor, The starter spins however was not kicking it into the ring gear/flywheel in order to turn over the engine, Hmmmm! perhaps not as hot of battery as I originally thought!, so I go for my 200 amp charger/jump starter , When I attempt to connect the Leeds Pos+ to Pos+ and neg- to neg-etc,etc, Sparks flew as though I was connecting them wrongly (backward), again I double checked my connections and all was correct, Now I'm thinking this sure is strange
I then remove the battery and reconnect the tester to it, although this time I connect it backward, Pos+ to Neg- and Neg- to Pos+ and i finally get a reading, the needle now moves to green for good battery, I leave the load on it for 15 seconds and the needle stay in the green, Wallah! now I'm getting somewhere but still not fully understanding what is going on here, I now realize that when at first the starter was spinning it must have been spinning backwards.... so I re-install the battery into the tractor but this time I make the connection in reverse just as i did with the tester ( Pos to Neg /Neg to Pos ) The tractor Now spins over and starts right up, Although the battery terminals are now in fact backward, ...................................
Anyone ever experienced this before? Has this battery been wrongly marked from factory? or has the person who rebuilt this battery in someway done something wrong causing the reverse polarity? this could be confusing to who ever might buy this tractor, so I doubt I will leave it in there, I'm going to monitor the battery until next weekend to see if the charge holds or not. and Might confront the man who sold it to my wife to find out what exactly he had done in the reconditioning of this battery,
Now here comes the mystery:confused2:.... the first thing I done was to put this battery on my load tester, the needle never moved and was as if the battery was dead flat, so I went for the old school field test, arc the Pos/neg terminals together and boy was it hot, almost could weld with it, I just thought perhaps the tester might have went bad or a wire come loose inside,............ Ok on to changing out the batteries, now keep in mind I haven't started the tractor in several weeks though last time I did it was working good, So I did a quick swap of the 2 batteries, Now I'm on to starting the tractor and nothing happens, I double check all connection and everything thing is good, So I decide to cross out the Solenoid in attempt to start the tractor, The starter spins however was not kicking it into the ring gear/flywheel in order to turn over the engine, Hmmmm! perhaps not as hot of battery as I originally thought!, so I go for my 200 amp charger/jump starter , When I attempt to connect the Leeds Pos+ to Pos+ and neg- to neg-etc,etc, Sparks flew as though I was connecting them wrongly (backward), again I double checked my connections and all was correct, Now I'm thinking this sure is strange
I then remove the battery and reconnect the tester to it, although this time I connect it backward, Pos+ to Neg- and Neg- to Pos+ and i finally get a reading, the needle now moves to green for good battery, I leave the load on it for 15 seconds and the needle stay in the green, Wallah! now I'm getting somewhere but still not fully understanding what is going on here, I now realize that when at first the starter was spinning it must have been spinning backwards.... so I re-install the battery into the tractor but this time I make the connection in reverse just as i did with the tester ( Pos to Neg /Neg to Pos ) The tractor Now spins over and starts right up, Although the battery terminals are now in fact backward, ...................................Anyone ever experienced this before? Has this battery been wrongly marked from factory? or has the person who rebuilt this battery in someway done something wrong causing the reverse polarity? this could be confusing to who ever might buy this tractor,
so I doubt I will leave it in there, I'm going to monitor the battery until next weekend to see if the charge holds or not. and Might confront the man who sold it to my wife to find out what exactly he had done in the reconditioning of this battery,
