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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This battery tester get used every month multiple times. It tests every type of battery inuse. To d batteries. Habe my secret tester.



Cons

The gbt-500a is not a true 1. I know my tester was inaccurate, because once i installed the new battery in the smoke alarm, the chirping stopped. The conclusion, at least for six volt lantern batteries is that this tester does not work for 6 volt batt...  Read More

Dead as a shakespearean doornail. The one i received is very hard to grip. Comes with no real instructions.

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Quality


Easy to use and accuracy is on target


This is a very good battery tester


Many times a light tool remote game etc stops working and i assume its the battery and replace them but many times its the devi...  Read More


Ive had this model before and it moved smoothly in and out this must be a manufacturing flaw or something

Price


Inexpensive and tells you the condition of every battery


I dont think you can beat it at that price point


There were 40 that were still good so this paid for itself the fist time i used it


For the price its a great little tester if someone needs amore precise piece of equipment why would they even consider this

Shipping


Came on time tests all my batteries

Competitiveness


Compared to the cheap tester this one is more responsive more accurate easier to read


It is much better than my more expensive meters that i have bought in the past


I purchased a competitors battery tester and discovered it was a piece of junk


This garnder bender gbt500 is exact same meter as the sperry

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  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 4,257 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 22 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Still its conspicuously smaller than the one with the identical face and features that i purchased 15 years ago


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Particularly puzzling is the buttoncell holder which is too small for my 2032s and too big for my smaller button cells


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Be mindful to check that you are using the red wand on the positive side of the battery black on the negative


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Has instructions on it to which wand to use that is positive in case you haven’t used it in a while


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Storing the wires and probes is sloppy but at this price nothing to really make issue about


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    My previous one lasted about 10 years


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I purchased a competitors battery tester and discovered it was a piece of junk


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Huge fan of analog not least in this case because it doesnt need batteries of its own

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