ANCEL BA101 Car Battery Tester 12V Load Tester, 100-2000 CCA Auto Battery Analyzer, Automotive Alternator Tester Digital on Cranking Charging System, for Motorcycle, Truck, Boat, RV, Marine & More

It’s looks really do hide a truly great performing battery tester. A very good range of tests, all carried out with the most important factor - accuracy. Others on the market do ‘look’ better, where this just works as it should, and at a very good price point. The only way it could be improved would be the inclusion of a suitable storage case in place of the small card box it arrives in. Low cost and high performance. Superb little tool to have about.

Load testing the health of your car battery CCA (Cold Cranking Amps) and whether the battery can retain the charge is important to know when having diesel vehicles especially for those colder mornings - don't get caught out!. It's easy to use, does what it says and clearly displays the results. I've always used the multi-meter method for checking the alternator charge but this does that to. I'm not intending to use the report and download feature but that could be useful in a commercial sense. I Should have bought one of these tools years ago.

Very handy piece of kit for small money. Had a battery go bad on a vintage vehicle. Tried charging but the CCA was gone to low on the battery.

Have so many batteries around. Project farm vid said this is best for the £. Looks like all my old batteries are no good! No real way of double checking. But does say known good batteries are good. Recommended.

Great little tester. Easy to use and really accurate too. You need to know some basic info about your car battery type and capacity (can usually be found on your battery if you don’t know) Reports battery health as well as state of charge and voltage. Can also test your car’s charging system (alternator) to see if the cars charging the battery You can also run a cranking test to see how the battery performs under load. There’s a good review of it on YouTube (projectfarm) if you want to see it beat other models much more expensive than this one.

Simple to use but accurate and most importantly gives internal resistance. I bought a brand new Bosch batter from EuroParts and when I got home, before fitting it to my car, tested the battery. It showed 72% health and 9.54 internal resistance. Charging it overnight did not make any difference. I took it back and the guys in Europarts were brilliant, no quibble, they got out another Bosch battery and that too tested 87% health. Finally a cheaper "own brand" (I think made by Lion) and this showed 99% health so I bought that instead and save myself £20. After charging overnight it now tests 100% health and all other tests are perfect. I will never purchase a new car battery again without my test meter. There is no other way of knowing how "good" the battery really is without knowing things like the internal resistance. The battery test meter used in the shop by Europarts looks expensive and produces a nice paper print out of the results but it does not test internal resistance so is really a waste of time. Incidentally, testing the 2 year old battery in my son's car also showed 100% health.

Good value for money

Works perfectly and a very reasonable price Would definitely recommend