[Solved] Checking AA & AAA Energizer Ultimate Lithium Batteries Using Meter - Voltage Standards & Settings

Hello,

I have a pair (I do not know if good) batteries, both AA and AAA Energizer Ultimate Lithium, I know I used them, but how many and for what I do not remember - and I do not want to throw away good batteries, what I gave for them . I have a meter like below



it has BATT for battery check. I just admit that I do not know how to find out on this meter whether the battery is good or to be thrown away.

It is possible to use this meter to check whether the above-mentioned batteries are good, e.g. if they have the right voltage, what voltage should it be and how to set the meter then?

Greetings,
Arthur

Of course. Set the range of 2.5V on the left side with the gray background and measure the voltage.

I set myself to 2.5V and checked the batteries and each of them shows that it has a value of 150 on the black AC DC bar of the meter, that's a good battery, is it good voltage ?.

How would it be or will be used, the value will be lower?

not 150 and 1.50V, it's a good battery. Discharged it would be lower.

Oops, blunder on my part, 1.50V is supposed to be.

Thanks for the help.

As for me, when measuring the battery, you should not pay attention only to the voltage value. Always measures the short-circuit current of the battery. Many times I have encountered batteries that had the correct voltage and even 100mA of current could not be removed from them.

You can measure the voltage under load for a more precise check of the battery condition. As a load, you can use a 1.2V bulb or a properly selected resistor.

or maybe the meter in the photo adds such a load itself, after all, it has a scale for batteries (REPLACE and GOOD), i.e. REPLACE and GOOD, you just need to confidently select it on the BATT 1.5 knob

And on my meter you can also measure the short-circuit current of the battery?

Yes, there is an option like checking the battery. I also checked this option and all batteries were GOOD (good) there was no clue until the end, but there was a clue in the middle of GOOD.

After all, measuring tension is more effective than color pictures. At least there is no tolerance just a pure voltage reading.

kasjo wrote:

As for me, when measuring the battery, you should not pay attention only to the voltage value. Always measures the short-circuit current of the battery. Many times I have encountered batteries that had the correct voltage and even 100mA of current could not be removed from them.

I confirm Short-circuit current measurement gives a clear picture of the state of a given cell.

First of all, with any DC voltage meter, you can measure such a battery by measuring the voltage.
In turn, in this meter you have the option of "quick" checking the battery whether it is good or to be "thrown away"
With the batteries in the fingers, that is, the 1.5V voltage is set as shown in the photo and by applying the meter tips:
+ to battery plus, - meter tips to battery minus.
The pointer should lean towards GOOD, if good, the better, the more it will lean to the right
The weaker the battery, the pointer will deflect less and less to the right.
The field on the gauge "?" it is the limit of good or bad battery. The REPLACE field is a bad battery, to be replaced.
On your meter you can measure "fast" 1.5V and 9V batteries (setting one to the left from the current one)
Remember about the poles of the battery and the tips of the meter so that the pointer deflects well
Generally, without it, by switching the meter to the given voltage, you can measure "every" battery / accumulator.
Set the meter so that the voltage of the battery being measured is not higher than that set in the meter!
You can damage your meter (most of the fuse will blow, but it's better not to risk it!)
For example, for a 12V battery, set 50V DC (dc constant voltage - where the polarity is "+" and "-"),
setting the voltage lower than 12V, i.e. 10V DC, for example, is a risk of damaging the meter!
For alternating voltage, you set the AC voltages as much, more or as much as the equipment under test, never less!
With higher voltages, be careful not to touch! (e.g. 50V up )

greetings

asziatko wrote:

And on my meter you can also measure the short-circuit current of the battery?

Unfortunately not. This meter has a range of up to 250mA, which is too little even for a battery.

You could measure the voltage drop across a known resistance and calculate the current. But it's not worth doing something like that.

There used to be a battery test meter that showed voltage and had a button to load the battery - you read the voltage and pressed the button for a moment to see if it would drop a lot under load. You can connect the meter to the battery, attach a load (e.g. a lamp from a flashlight) to it for a while and watch how the voltage drops.

The new "1.5V" cell gives a slightly higher voltage - even up to 1.7V - and this voltage indicates that the cell has not been used, but it is appropriate to have a tested meter, because it happens that it is incorrectly calibrated and shows incorrectly, modern digital meters hold better calibration, the old analog ones were sometimes mediocre in this respect.

The term "good" or "bad" is a relative term.
The same link for a camera may not work. The camera itself measures its voltage at a certain load and will flash "Low Battery" or similar and turn off. The wireless mouse will stutter.
Inserting such a link into an LCD wall clock will allow the clock to run for six months.

I bought an electronic meter with a digital display showing the voltage V, how much the battery has - a 1.5V and 9V battery tester.