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Lead Acid Battery Question
Someone "paid" me for some time with a brand new motorcycle battery.
(He bought a 12 volt when he needed a 6 volt, and I wasn't going to charge him for the time anyway) I have a wave runner with a 4? year old battery that still works great, I hate to replace it when it works so well. (It spent most of it's life on a good battery maintainence charger) The question! He filled it with acid then I slow charged it. Can I preserve the new battery by emptying the acid then letting it dry? |
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Lead Acid Battery Question
On 2010-07-27, Tony wrote:
The question! He filled it with acid then I slow charged it. Can I preserve the new battery by emptying the acid then letting it dry? Yes. Emptying the acid will stop the chemical reaction and preserve both the acid and the battery plates. Make sure you have a good bottle for the acid and after a couple days of drying out, seal the battery chambers (perhaps upside down) to prevent critters from taking up residency. nb |
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Lead Acid Battery Question
On Jul 27, 7:17*pm, notbob wrote:
On 2010-07-27, Tony wrote: The question! *He filled it with acid then I slow charged it. *Can I preserve the new battery by emptying the acid then letting it dry? Yes. * Emptying the acid will stop the chemical reaction and preserve both the acid and the battery plates. *Make sure you have a good bottle for the acid and after a couple days of drying out, seal the battery chambers (perhaps upside down) to prevent critters from taking up residency. nb You need to drain the acid and wash the battery out with distilled water before storage. If you let the acid dry out, it will be concentrated sufficiently to damge the plates. |
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Lead Acid Battery Question
harry wrote:
On Jul 27, 7:17 pm, notbob wrote: On 2010-07-27, Tony wrote: The question! He filled it with acid then I slow charged it. Can I preserve the new battery by emptying the acid then letting it dry? Yes. Emptying the acid will stop the chemical reaction and preserve both the acid and the battery plates. Make sure you have a good bottle for the acid and after a couple days of drying out, seal the battery chambers (perhaps upside down) to prevent critters from taking up residency. nb You need to drain the acid and wash the battery out with distilled water before storage. If you let the acid dry out, it will be concentrated sufficiently to damge the plates. I almost wrote "rinse it with distilled water" but didn't. I think there are good and bad points with that. It goes back to what I learned long ago, if you drain a fully charged battery of it's acid, then use acid to fill it up again. If you drain a totally dead battery of it's more or less, water, then you fill it again with distilled water. I'll probably just go really easy on the water to prevent too much chemical reaction when rinsing it. |
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