Joe, I understand the battery will go down a little. The reason it is reading so high is because it was hooked to a battery maintainer all day. So I went back out to run a few more tests with the meter and here is what I came up with. The battery had just came off the maintainer so it was obviously reading a little high (little over 13 volts). I put the meter on the battery and it was reading a little over 13 volts, when I hit the start button, it dropped to 12.6. I then put the meter on the starter solenoid and it read 12.8 on the hot side, when I hit the starter it would drop to 12.2. On the opposite side (going to the starter) it read 0, then when I hit the starter button it would jump to 12.2. So as long as the wire is connected, I should have 12.2 volts going to the starter. Not good