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nickdalzell1 · 12-08-2019, 04:39 PM

those LED bar meters are garbage! They either refuse to go back to full from flashing E, or the batteries are pretty critically low by the time they reach half. It's usually a great way to EOL a controller to let one go past half on a bar graph meter.

They're cool looking but you'd be better off relying on that idiot light instead. We don't recommend the LED Bar meters anymore, we got ones with that (and color coded bars that define anything below half as dead--red! middle is green and high is blue) and a voltage readout in one.

We unplug the battery warning light these days--folks don't know what it means, and it tends to come on for no reason 90% the time. When i worked at a junkyard years ago, we pulled the check engine light because folks thought the car would self-destruct with it on, but in truth a car can drive perfectly fine with the check engine light on.

12-08-2019, 04:39 PM	#2
nickdalzell1 Resident Curmudgeon Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 1,279	Re: Battery meter?? those LED bar meters are garbage! They either refuse to go back to full from flashing E, or the batteries are pretty critically low by the time they reach half. It's usually a great way to EOL a controller to let one go past half on a bar graph meter. They're cool looking but you'd be better off relying on that idiot light instead. We don't recommend the LED Bar meters anymore, we got ones with that (and color coded bars that define anything below half as dead--red! middle is green and high is blue) and a voltage readout in one. We unplug the battery warning light these days--folks don't know what it means, and it tends to come on for no reason 90% the time. When i worked at a junkyard years ago, we pulled the check engine light because folks thought the car would self-destruct with it on, but in truth a car can drive perfectly fine with the check engine light on.