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When I replaced the battery on The Beast, I turned on "engineering mode" which has a readout for the battery voltage and charge percentage.
For three short trips the, brand new, AGM battery showed 69.8% charge and 15.0 to 15.2 volts.
That's a little alarming, but the G8 forums say it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Today, on the way to the VA, the voltage was a far more sane 14.0 to 14.5 volts and the charge percentage crept up from 70.4% to 92.4% by the time I got home.
On the trip to one of the local breweries, voltage was down to a comfortable 13.6 to 13.9 and was reading 96.4% when I pulled into the garage.
I am thinking I'm good.
What's interesting is the best that percentage ever showed with the old batt was 74% and that's damn close to the difference between the 660 cca Group 48 and the 880 cca Group 94R.
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