123 - Kingbolen BM550 battery analyser. How well does it work? And how to measure batteries anyway?
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- Kingbolen kindly sent me the BM550 for review. Its a battery analyser meant for car and motorcycle batteries. An easy review, or so I thought until I realized that measuring batteries is way more complicated as I thought. My goal in reviews is always to understand what the thing does and verify how well it is doing it. For the BM550 I had to learn a lot on battery models which is why this video is so long and quite "dry and theoretical" over long passages. Sorry, I don't know how to explain what I did in the practical part without covering the theory at least to some degree.
Anyway, I like the BM550 and although it has accuracy issues when the battery resistance is unusually high, it works well for the type of batteries I tested, which included 18650 cells.
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0:00 First Impressions
0:57 User Interface
2:12 Checking with a scope
4:50 What is CCA
6:38 Inside batteries
10:52 Inside the BM550
12:46 Kelvin probes
14:05 How it works
15:21 State of Charge
17:36 Battery resistance
19:57 Low voltage test
20:46 testing a 18650
21:03 DC verification
22:42 AC verification
26:02 NiMH cells
26:24 small lead acid battery
27:36 car batteries
28:37 conclusion - Věda a technologie
Such a really complete and comprehendible explanation of battery testing. Very instructive.
You set the standard for analytical review. Thank you.
Excellent review!! I odored BM580 and currently waiting for it to arrive. Really hope it also measures Li-Ion cells.
Ein wirklich sehr gutes, interessantes Video. Es hat mir bei meiner Entscheidung einen Batterie Tester zu kaufen sehr geholfen. Vielen Dank.
@12:30 that lazered ic looks like an op amp
Nice review. I recently bought Kingbolen Bm550. I tested my car battery (440A EN). I tested and got 408A on completly new battery. I tested it 10 min later and got 443A, and yesterday I got 432A on test. Are your tests like this? Did you try unplugging and testing again car battery?
And can you compare results with KONNWEI KW208?
I can't say that I have. But I did notice that despite kelvin clamps I never managed to get exactly the same measurement once I removed the clamps and re-attached them. What I mean is that if I run the same test twice without touching the clamps, the values were very consistent. But taking the clamps off and on again and I got more differences. I also found it us not easy to connect the probes to real battery terminals (at least for my car) I can well imagine that crime and oxide on the connections can play a role there. For what its worth, since making this video I was approached by TOPDON to review one of their testers. I just finished testing their AB101. The video will come out tomorrow. When comparing the readings for the BM550 and the AB101 for my VW Golf car, the values were very close to each other. Having played with the TOPDON tester, I think for 12V car lead acid batteries, the AB101 is better than the BM550 simply it tests more stuff, like cranking. But I will keep the BM550 because it does other voltages which the AB101 does not,
I can understand the trouble with the kelvin clamps, they seem to be a little to small which makes it hard to apply them. I too was offered the AB101 and did a review. The AB101 is quite a bit better for 12V car batteries, but if you need a tester that can do more than 12V, the BM550 beats it
how can i dectct a battary cca, i am from india. our battery have ah and volt, but not print on battery cca
There are tables from various places that list AH and CCA, Google should find. Some folks use AH*7.6 = CCA for medium batteries but it is usually not quite so linear for small or big batteries. Its a complex issue because AH and CCA are different in what they mean and so any correlation is always just approximate
Is it possible to test alternator(battery charging)with this item?
Not directly. You could run the engine/alternator for a while and see if the state of charge increased. Better, check the battery voltage before starting the engine and after. If the voltage is higher, the alternator is charging the battery.
@@TheHWcave Thank you.
Generally, alternators either work or they don't work. You can test the alternator using a multimeter (voltmeter). Just put the probes on the battery, measure (let's say 12.5V)... leave them connected, start the engine, and check again. If the voltage is about 14V (or 2V higher than a "flat" battery), then the alternator is working.
You can test the charging current using a DC Clamp meter, but you have to get enough load on there to test it. That generally means starting and stopping the car a number of times to get the battery voltage down close to 11-12V, and then running the engine and as many other ancillaries as possible. High beam headlights, etc.
@@johncoops6897 Thank you John very much!
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