Too High Cca Battery

Too high cold cranking amps may even be bad for my battery.

Too high cca battery.

Ditto and no as more cca may not be mandatory for starting this car. If your battery replacement has a lower cca rating than the oe then expect reduced performance. If your trying to measure what s left of your battery in life forget the cca rating. Cold cranking amps cca cca is a rating used in the battery industry to define a battery s ability to start an engine in cold temperatures.

Load it to 175 amps and start your stop watch. Which will give the same result when the battery is brand new but a very short battery life because the combination of thin plates and strong acid will cause the battery to fail very quickly. This allows very high amperage output allowing your battery to power your accessories longer and deeper than a traditional battery but at the same time deeply discharging it. Or you can get high cca by making the battery with really cheap thin lead plates and lots of cheap and strong electrolyte.

A battery with 500 cca or more should have no problem starting an atv engine even if the temperature drops below zero. Other than that i have also learned that if i live in a tropical country i need not be concerned with car battery cca. Low cca is what can be hard on a starter. The only downside i can think of is packing too many plates in the same size could make the battery less tolerant to vibrations and normal flaking with age with ordinary lead acid type batteries.

Your replacement batteries should excel if not equal in terms of rating with the oe battery. Cycle life a battery s cycle life is the number of times it can be recharged. Generally speaking it is easier to start an engine in a warm environment than in a cold one. Too low cca means that my car might not be able to start when the weather is very cold.

Just load test the battery with a carbon pile. An agm battery with its low internal resistance may stump car guys because sometimes it doesn t work like a traditional flooded lead acid battery. Add increased starter current draw if the engine is hot plus the late model bikes phase up while cranking and that needs good high cranking rpm. A battery with a high starting power must be able to give you enough confidence in time.