Thread: Battery Jump Starter Pack for N70ZZ Battery

Have you checked the voltage coming out of the battery?

Have you checked your battery fighter....after a few years, mine started permanently showing a green light. I replaced it with a noco.

Originally Posted by trout1105

Have you checked the voltage coming out of the battery?

Hello Trout,

The battery is flat on my multimeter too

I would still like to get a battery jump starter pack though - regardless. Oh for the Century battery - not the multimeter.

Kind Regards
Lionel

The cost of a decent jump starter pack is about the same as a new battery.
If you get a new battery you won't need the jump starter pack

Originally Posted by Gordie

Have you checked your battery fighter....after a few years, mine started permanently showing a green light. I replaced it with a noco.

Hello Gordie,

I have had the Battery Fighter for a couple of years. The Positive clamp actually corroded away. I replaced it with a new clamp that I solder the lead in place. Just a while ago I turned the Battery Fighter off again - disconnected and reconnected the clamps. Now I have a flashing green light.

When I bought the Yanmar 3 cylinder diesel tractor second hand it came with a N70 ZZ battery installed. When that battery died I replaced it with the Century battery. The N70 ZZ is the same battery that fits the Land Rover six cylinder petrol too.

I have noticed that with the tractor if the battery is not fully charged it will not kick the starter motor over. Yet when the battery is taken out of the tractor and put into my Land Rover Series III it starts straight away.

I am about to post a thread on the Yanmar tractor forum to see what battery other people are using. Just because it came with the N70ZZ does not necessarily mean it is the best battery for it.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by trout1105

The cost of a decent jump starter pack is about the same as a new battery.
If you get a new battery you won't need the jump starter pack

So, what if the battery is not old, just flat?

I reckon I'd be getting another charger.

Sounds like the battery isn't good enough for the yanmar diesel Lionel. Petrol motors are a lot easier to spin over. I had an old fordson major tractor, best thing it had was a decompression lever...big-ass battery would struggle to turn it over when cold, pull the decompression lever and it would spin freely.

Originally Posted by trout1105

The cost of a decent jump starter pack is about the same as a new battery.
If you get a new battery you won't need the jump starter pack

Hello Trout,

Yes I know where you are coming from. The battery is less than two years old. The vehicles it is used for are not road registered so they are not daily drivers. That is why I bought the Battery Fighter so the battery can be maintained - so when I want to start something - I was reasonably confident that the battery would be ready to go.

The positioning of the battery in the tractor is far from user friendly. If I put a battery in the sod of a place I want to be able to just turn the key and have vroom vroom sounds emitting from the engine. The jumper pack will give me a back up.

Oh well the grass in the paddock will just get a little longer and consume next weekend as an activity. I will throw the battery into one of my Series IIIs and go for a paddock bash instead!


Kind Regards
Lionel