Hello
I have a smart shunt and am about to remove leisure battery from van, can I connect the shunt to the battery alone, without any other load or anything else connected?
I want to measure battery capacity for a used battery to help decide if I want to keep it or not.
If not, what’s the easiest way to add a ‘load’ while it is on a bench in garage?
The shunt cannot itself measure capacity, only throughput, so you'll need to connect a load to the battery. Lots of options really, depends on what you have available to you. An inverter with something plugged into it, a dump load resistor, high-current LEDs, whatever you can come up with.
There are digital battery analyzers that would do a better job of measuring the remaining performance of your battery, like the West Mount Radio CBA-xx series testers (I use a CBA-IV myself), but that may not be a practical investment if this will just be a one-off use.
Yes, but you'll need a load to test the capacity.
