The daily maintenance of vehicle battery can effectively extend the battery life. For this reason, Camel summarizes the following nine suggestions for you.

Heavy Truck Starter Battery

1. Remember to turn off the lights and truck electrical appliances when you get off, and make a good habit of checking them again. If the battery is consumed overnight, it may run out of power at any time and cannot start your truck.

2. Start the vehicle first before turning on the lights, audio, etc. If the audio system has been modified, installed a high-powered stereo, then be more careful, in the case of no car, idle speed listening to high-powered stereo, will bring a very high load on the battery.

3. Try not to use the CD, cigarette lighter and other electrical devices when the vehicle is not started. The process of driving also less use of various car electrical appliances.

4. Use the air conditioner correctly. If you turn off the air conditioner, the next time you start the vehicle, the air conditioner automatically run, the vehicle instantaneous power load is too high, will cause loss of battery. Every time before arriving at your destination, you should turn off the A/C button and let the cold air blow for a few minutes to ensure that the interior of the air conditioning system is dry and reduce the breeding of bacteria, and turn off the air conditioning before turning off the car. Start the air conditioner after you land the car when driving.

5. Don't take too long and too many times when starting the truck, so as not to cause excessive battery discharge damage. Each time the total length of time to start the car does not exceed 5 seconds, start again interval time of not less than 15 seconds, in the case of multiple starts still not on the car should check the circuit, ignition coil or oil circuit, etc..

6. Prevent the self-discharge caused by the battery not being used for a long time. Every certain time should start a truck, to battery charging. Truck often short-distance driving, open and stop, will lead to truck battery in a long-term under-charged state, shorten the service life. On the highway at a steady speed for 20-30 minutes, you can give the truck battery sufficient time to charge.

7. Regularly scrub the battery. Use a wet cloth to regularly wipe the panel, positive and negative two pole head of dust, oil, white powder and other easy to cause leakage dirt clean. This will have a longer service life.

8. Pay attention to the battery status indicator. Many vehicles will have a battery status indicator on the LCD screen, prompting the use of the battery, when the battery voltage is insufficient, the indicator will flash to remind, we must check carefully.

9. Foresee the battery "end of life" signs. General retirement of the battery will appear some signs, such as the car parked for a few days to find that the fire, fuel consumption increased, summer driving with air conditioning feeling car burden increased, the car sunk.

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