How to Test a Car Battery? To measure battery load, conduct three voltage tests with the multimeter. Start the first test by making sure the vehicle is turned off. Multimeters have two probes: red and ...

There are several versions of the batteries that are used in today’s vehicles. In this article, we’ll cover the different types of batteries and how to test a 12V car battery with a multimeter.

One of the simplest tasks a digital multimeter can perform is a basic voltage test on a car battery. Positive and negative terminals, hooked up to the car or not, will give a base number.

[Piffpaffpoltrie] had a problem. They found the InLine VA40R to be a perfectly usable multimeter, except for a couple of flaws. Most glaring among these were the tiny sockets for the test probes. T… ...