As a technician turned independent distributor, Richard Downing is able to put himself in his customers’ shoes.

“I was never a salesman,” Downing says, “but I can relate to people on what they are working on.”

He often uses a story from when he was still working as a tech to help sell his SOLAR battery tester. Downing had received a call from a man whose vehicle wouldn’t start. The vehicle’s battery was only four or five months old, and even after trying to jumpstart it, it still did nothing. At first, Downing was going to take a look at the wiring, but then decided against that and used his SOLAR battery tester instead. After testing the battery, he found it had a shorted cell, and once he replaced the vehicle’s battery it worked just fine. This experience sold Downing on the SOLAR brand, and now he uses it to help convince his customers of the same thing.