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That sounds strange. Couple of questions. Are you sure you were checking the polarity right? DC meter will read negative if polarized backward. Next, i'm not too familiar with D-series, are batteries in parallel? Is pos from one going to pos of other, and neg to neg? I'm guessing they should, if you're running 6 volt system. Series connection would give you 12 volts from neg of one batt to pos of other. Have you checked the voltage from the neg of one batt to the pos of the other? Are you getting these readings with the batteries unhooked from the tractor completely? If not, I would try that. That may help narrow things down some. I would take the batteries to town. Most parts stores or garages have battery testers. They can test battery with load applied to let you know if it is good or bad. You may have a shorted cell. If batteries test good, you may have a shorted cable draining everything.

by what you've just described in the last post, the labeling is wrong on one of the batteries. that doesn't explain why everything was fine yesterday or the day before.

Brian, charge them seperatly and then come back after awhile and see how much amperage each has. put a carbon pile load tester to them and you should be able to tell right away.

Something bothering you Byron?

I thought I was being funny Lonn but I got up much too early this morning so am not all here mentally.  Though even when I am all here it's not a lot of ability or capacity.

AGCO is bothering me.  I've felt shafted with my AGCO stuff since they did there thing so it's rocked my equipment world a tad.  I worked numbers on a Kubota deal yesterday and it's worse than the New Holland deal.  Word is that that AGCO's announcement cost me $2,000-$3,000 on my one big tractor alone.  At least I don't have those really big ones and a big new soon to be canceled Gleaner.

I had a nice trip through your fine state on Monday though.  I visited a great made in USA clothing store in Wyoming MN that really made me happy.  Takes a lot of searching out of buying clothes for me now and I love the stuff I got.  I also learned that MN doesn't charge tax on clothing, has a law that if you get government money for clothing/boots you have to spend it on made in USA stuff and you can't buy an American flag in MN unless it's made in USA.  Really made me love MN more.  Spent Monday night in Duluth.  I've been there twice now and I just love that city.  I told my wife that I hope we don't have to move but if we do I hopes it's Duluth. 

Thanks for asking.

Byron

Stan IL&TN wrote: As someone else pointed out some time back, 6 volt batteries sit on the shelf sometimes for a very long time before they are sold as there is not much demand for them.  Those 3 month old batteries could be very old before you get them.

I check the date stamp on all batteries I buy any more, the back of the row is usually months newer(12v)

 goal was to have tractor close to orignal, no i dont have leads crossed on multimeter, i know how to run a multimeter,batt are hooked in series so should have 12 volts from neg post on one batt to pos post on other batt.  bad battery ,orderd new one, next day batt had - 1 volt

blee i am not implying that you dont know how. sorry if it come across as that. but i have done that very thing had the leads backwards and never caught it.