How to use the CBA battery tester

• Step by step on how to use the CBA battery tester
• How to do a discharge test
• How to extend a test

Step by step on how to use the CBA battery tester

Step 1

First you will have to go to the west mountain radio clik here to acces and then it should look like this 

if it does not work or the page does not look like this then jut search west mountain radio in your web browser and clik the link that says West Mountain Radio: Home or something similar

Step 2

Now you will hover your mouse over support and clik on dowloads

Step 3

Once you click on dowloads you will have to scroll dow till you see a title on a red box that says computerised battery analyzers

Step 4

now you will have to find cba V wich it should be the firt one and click on software CBA HR, Version 3.5.8 (as of right now) once cliked you will be directed to this page

Step 5

now you will clik on the thing that says click here to dowload Latest Version 3.5.8 CBA Software for CBA II, CBA III, CBA IV, CBA V & CBA HR

Step 6

once you do the hole proces of dowloading you will open the app (called CBA sofware)and be on this page

check the next page on how to do a discharge test

How to do a discharge test

Step 1

you must click now new test and will be directed to this page(just remember that you must have your CBA unit pluded in)

Step 2

Now once you pluged in the battery to the CBA and the CBA to the pc on the bottom righ corner it will say none selected then a fan and next a usb with a ✅and now you can click new test and you will be directed to the thing in the top left for this test we will be doing a discharge, please remember that you must change the battery type do not run just with lead acid chek on your battery lables if you are not shure about the battery dont just gamble it get someone to help you

you will then click detect on the blue square wich will tell you the Voltage of the battery and the cells, you will have to manually put the Capacity (Ah) for exmaple my batteries are 18Ah so the CBA just put 18  (for me) don't put 18.000 just put 18. Now under discharge you will have to click detect and make sure that the cutoff  is at 10.50 else it will nefer finish and it shuld put the correct test amps, you don't need to do anything else but click start and wait for the test to finish

once you start seeing a color line moving that means that your test is running correctly, just fyi you will need more than 3 hours for this test. Remember that you can always stop or pause the test and if you at any point unplug the battery from the cba/the cba from your computer the test can't be ever resumed again

when the test is finished you will see that the line has reached the cutoff or 10.5 volts in my case wich is the green dotted line with an arrow on your cutoff voltage at 10.5V

as we can see on the graph the solid green wire has reached the cuttof voltage so the test is finished but the solid red wire did not rech the green light because 3 hours was not enough so that is a failed test.

Now once you have finish your test on the blue rectangle on the right we got all the information the oragne square gives you live data of your battery

Now on the top left you can either make a new test wich will open another file you can also append another test on the same graph, you can do a quick load test, you can also extend the test, you can see the test properties, you can print lables and export the test

How to extend a test

Step 1

once you click on extend test this square will pop up you can click ok or cancel

once you click ok the cba will re read the voltage an a line will just pop straight up and you will slowly see the grenn line start moving again

and this is how it will look like the graph at the end of the test