For my next stupid trick.

[cycling weakly]

I have quite cleverly generated a large spark, I have a 36v HL battery with push in connectors inside the metal casing at the end of the carrier. The carrier was not connected to anything. I slid the battery onto the carrier & hey presto a large flash on removing the battery & the cover on the carrier it was obvious the both cable ends had touched the metal part of the carrier. On testing the battery with the volt meter with the meter set to 20v it read -1. With the meter set to 200v it read 58v. Any advice on this wiuld be most welcome.

Steve

 

[Deleted member 4366]

There's nothing wrong with your bike battery, but your meter needs a new one, then it'll read correctly.

 

[cycling weakly]

Thanks for that Dave, you are without a doubt, "The finest man that ever lived" I did misread your reply at the first reading. I thought you meant the meter was duff. The battery I removed had a "Best if installed before date" of 2003. So hadn't lasted long at all.

Cheers Steve