battery voltage climbs
 

I have a CR2032 mercury battery, and when measured with a digital VOM,
it starts around 3.5v and climbs slowly to a little over 6v .

What does that mean?

It's a cheap meter but it's worked fine for years, especially for DCV.

battery voltage climbs
 

On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:05:45 -0400, micky
wrote:

I have a CR2032 mercury battery, and when measured with a digital VOM,
it starts around 3.5v and climbs slowly to a little over 6v .
What does that mean?
It's a cheap meter but it's worked fine for years, especially for DCV.



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battery voltage climbs
 

On 7/6/2020 3:05 PM, micky wrote:
I have a CR2032 mercury battery, and when measured with a digital VOM,
it starts around 3.5v and climbs slowly to a little over 6v .

What does that mean?

It's a cheap meter but it's worked fine for years, especially for DCV.


Meter battery dying?

battery voltage climbs
 

In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:09:22 -0700, Bob F
wrote:

On 7/6/2020 3:05 PM, micky wrote:
I have a CR2032 mercury battery, and when measured with a digital VOM,
it starts around 3.5v and climbs slowly to a little over 6v .

What does that mean?

It's a cheap meter but it's worked fine for years, especially for DCV.


Meter battery dying?

I don't think so but I'll go find another meter.

battery voltage climbs
 

On 7/6/2020 7:13 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:09:22 -0700, Bob F
wrote:

On 7/6/2020 3:05 PM, micky wrote:
I have a CR2032 mercury battery, and when measured with a digital VOM,
it starts around 3.5v and climbs slowly to a little over 6v .

What does that mean?

It's a cheap meter but it's worked fine for years, especially for DCV.


Meter battery dying?

I don't think so but I'll go find another meter.


Or a battery.

battery voltage climbs
 

micky was thinking very hard :
I have a CR2032 mercury battery, and when measured with a digital VOM,
it starts around 3.5v and climbs slowly to a little over 6v .

What does that mean?

It's a cheap meter but it's worked fine for years, especially for DCV.

Bad battery? Sometimes a car storage battery won't turn an engine over,
but using the headlights for a while heats the battery and it works
better at the new temperature. Maybe this is a miniature form of that
phenomenon.

battery voltage climbs
 

In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:18:21 -0400, FromTheRafters
wrote:

micky was thinking very hard :
I have a CR2032 mercury battery, and when measured with a digital VOM,
it starts around 3.5v and climbs slowly to a little over 6v .

What does that mean?

It's a cheap meter but it's worked fine for years, especially for DCV.

Bad battery? Sometimes a car storage battery won't turn an engine over,
but using the headlights for a while heats the battery and it works
better at the new temperature. Maybe this is a miniature form of that
phenomenon.

Well, I measured it again with the same meter, and this time it was
2.65v and steady. . I figured the battery was bad, but I still don't
know what happened the first time (The first two times actually, within
a minute of ieach other showed it climbing.).