Ahhh the ever popular risk management assessment....
What happens if I do not water this battery ??.
a. nothing
b. it sparks across the plates and explodes.
What happens if I water this battery with (relatively) unknown water??
a. nothing
b. It is contaminated with potentially damaging minerals and shorts
the battery out.
Given just those options and information, I would agree with your
decision.
However, if the electrolyte was still slightly over the plate tops,
then I would have done nothing until returning home.
You were only in danger if the plates were exposed. Do you keep it on
a maintainer when not in use? I had a motorhome once that was left
plugged in to shorepower all the time by the previous owner. When I
bought it, the 1 yr old house battery pack was completely bone dry.
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From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Steve
Welch
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:10 PM
To: RJ Kanary
Cc: Elec-trak
Subject: Re: (ET) battery care
No...I was away from home - on the road without many options.
On Aug 7, 2008, at 10:05 PM, RJ Kanary wrote:
Depends on the mineral content.Ever have that water analyzed ?
RJ
Steve Welch wrote:
Hi all,
A quick battery care question: I was camping last weekend with
our trailer. It has a large 12v non-maint free house battery.
I happened to check the electrolyte & discovered it was lower
than I'd like. Evidently I had missed it in my routine prep
checklist. Anyway, I tried a number of local stores looking for
distilled water to top it up, and surprisingly, found none. I
ended up using well water filtered through a Brita carafe, as I
didn't feel comfortable letting it go till we got home.
I have always used distilled for batteries... Any harm in a bit
of non-distilled getting mixed in??
Thanks in advance,
Steve
Alltraxed E20
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