When your car doesn’t start, often the battery is the culprit. Unfortunately, most vehicle owners do not check their battery until it fails. As preventative maintenance, the suggested best practice is ...

Learn more on how to test a car battery with a Multimeter. Our team of experts prepared the guide on everything you need to know about testing a car battery.

Specific Gravity Test (for lead-acid batteries): If you have a lead-acid battery with removable caps, you can check the specific gravity of the electrolyte using a hydrometer.

This video covers the essential steps to properly test a car's alternator and diagnose common alternator issues. The guide demonstrates how to check the voltage regulator, diode rectifier, stator, and ...

To test a battery’s DC charge, touch the red probe to its positive terminal and the black probe to its negative terminal; the multimeter will display the existing charge in the battery.

For all of you who have a multimeter thrown in a drawer or toolbox but don’t know how to use it, these instructions will help in your search for missing voltage.

If you prefer to conduct the battery test yourself, you can do so using a multimeter. Costing as little as $10, a multimeter is an instrument that measures amps, volts, and resistance from an ...

Of course one could use the resistance measurement mode of the multimeter to check these connections are present, but using the continuity mode makes it even easier.