I charged my battery till the charger indicated it was fully charged.
I then took it off charge and reocorded the voltage at different times through-out the day with the battery sat in my house. Here is what I collected.
Sunday
13.11 V 09:30
13.04 V 10:00
13.03 V 10:30
13.01 V 12:00
13:00 V 13:00
12.97 V 18:30
12:95 V 22:00
As you can see, its probably got surface charge. It didnt drop much at all.
Monday
12.92 V 07:30
12.91 V 12:00
Still has surface charge so I decided to hook the battery upto my car and carry out a parsectic load test.
The load test result where good.
My multimetre was set at 10A fused setting and the dial was on "10" the reading was 0.20 or 0.020 at "2" amp setting. ( I think il will have to double check tonight)
I then took the battery off the car and its now at 12.87/12.88 V which is still good.
So I think we can say that the battery is not discharging itself.
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