Step 3 – Test Each Individual Battery Cell (1st way

To test each individual cell in the forklift battery, you’ll need to get out

your multimeter again. This can be the same multimeter you used in the last step.

We will test each cell individually because we are looking for a bad cell. For

example if all of the cells read about 2 volts but you find one cell that is 1.5 volts, it’s probably a bad/dead cell and this cell will continue to hinder the forklift

batteries performance regardless of reconditioning.

So to test each cell, you can keep all of your multimeter’s settings the same as in the last step except change the range to something closer to (but higher than) 2.5

volts because the highest reading we expect to get for each cell is 2.5v.

Then touch the red probe on a cell’s positive terminal and the black probe on the negative terminal (of the same cell), like in the following example:

*Note: your reading should be 2 to 2.5 volts.

Description: Testing each forklift battery cell with a multimeter

Repeat this for each cell in the forklift battery. In our example above we will test 18 cells (so this test will be done 18 times). If all cells read at least 2v you can skip

the next two steps and begin servicing and reconditioning the forklift battery.