Battery or batteries??

Anonymous-0 · Jan 3, 2011

In the spring im going to need a new battery or batteries in old stinky [460D] It has 2 small 12's now and a altenater. Are two 6 volts better than two 12's or one very large 12?? Years ago i went with a large single 12 in the very old 530 Case backhoe and it's fine but Old Stinky??? Thank's in advance.Bud.

Jimmy King · Jan 3, 2011

I use 1 12volt Battery on my 460D, it doesn't have to be real big if your starter is in good shape, it will really whine if the starter is good.

rustred · Jan 3, 2011

well they came out with 2 6 volt in series. most people now use one 12v. but if you want more cranking amps you can go with 2 12v in parallel . all up to you as you know how easy your own tractor starts.

John T · Jan 3, 2011

With two sixes in series the CCA is NOT additive, (its no more then the lesser battery can supply) only the voltage adds. With two batteries in paralell the voltage stays the same but the CCA is additive. If youre gonna use 12 volt batteries if one alone has sufficient CCA Id just use one but if you want/need double the amps avaialble into a starter y0u would have to run two in paralell.

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Larry B 1486 · Jan 4, 2011

All that I have ever seen, 460 and 560 diesels came out with only one 12V battery. Thats all my old 560D had. Where would you put a second battery on thoes tractors? Mount it on the side like a 806.

mkirsch · Jan 4, 2011

With current battery technology, there is no reason to go with the original configuration, except for "originality."

If you do decide to go with two 12V in parallel, make sure you replace BOTH batteries at the same time.

Replacing one battery at a time, you end up constantly replacing batteries as the old one ruins the new one. The weaker battery will pull charge from the stronger battery when they're in parallel.

Two 6V in series doesn't have that problem.

Either way, you've got twice as many battery connections to go bad with either dual-battery setup.

JDemaris · Jan 4, 2011

6 volt and 12 volt batteries are both just boxes with 2.1 volt cells stuck inside and run in series. Final outcome is the same, regardless. It's more about the quality of the batteries, not how many cells per "box."

Anonymous-0 · Jan 4, 2011

I used to set up & deliver new 460/560, all diesels had 2 6 volt batteries, no options. What we are forgetting is each cell is full of lead plates & acid, subdivide each cell into 12v, you loose room for some plates, they were after reserve capacity with 2 6v.

Jimmy King · Jan 4, 2011

460"s and 560"s came out with 2 6 V batterys they were under the hood right in front of the steering wheel.

Larry B 1486 · Jan 4, 2011

I guess the ones including my 560 that I have seen all got rid of the two sixes and just used one 12 afer some years.

Jimmy King · Jan 5, 2011

Had a good IH tech tell Dad and I one time get those batterys out from under there so you can get to them in a hurry. so we built a place for them on the side had 2 12 volts on it still didn"t start worth a crap. Had to have the starter rebuilt then, after that we only needed 1 12 volt. The starter had been dragging for years and we didn"t relize it.

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