Thank you all for your thoughts. I will see if I can get
the battery up to full charge and keep it there, assuming
it was just a maintenance issue. Hopefully that will get
me through the season ( a couple more weeks.)
I'll then get a new battery in the spring.
Frank

frank relates:

-Thank you all for your thoughts. I will see if I can get the battery up to
full charge and keep it there, assuming it was just a maintenance issue.
Hopefully that will get me through the season ( a couple more weeks.)
I'll then get a new battery in the spring.-

Bilge- Loss of water is mainly due to to off-gassing during charging, and
evaporation.

You might already know this, but storing your battery on a concrete floor or a
steel deck will cause it to self-discharge. Happily, plywood or scrap 2x4's are
cheap.

Which reminds me, I have to check the general alarm batteries, and the radio
batteries, and the Emergency 24 voltdc circuit batteries...

Jeez...now I'm sorry that I read this thread!

Good Luck;


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On 06 Oct 2004 16:07:14 GMT, (Bilgeman) wrote:

frank relates:

-Thank you all for your thoughts. I will see if I can get the battery up to
full charge and keep it there, assuming it was just a maintenance issue.
Hopefully that will get me through the season ( a couple more weeks.)
I'll then get a new battery in the spring.-

Bilge- Loss of water is mainly due to to off-gassing during charging, and
evaporation.

You might already know this, but storing your battery on a concrete floor or a
steel deck will cause it to self-discharge. Happily, plywood or scrap 2x4's are
cheap.

You are aware that case leakage is no longer a problem, right? :)

Of course, I don't believe it either, thus I store my boat batteries
on a little plywood shelf in my wood shop over the winter. :)

Which reminds me, I have to check the general alarm batteries, and the radio
batteries, and the Emergency 24 voltdc circuit batteries...

Jeez...now I'm sorry that I read this thread!

And I still have to finish a set of cabinets that I promised my long
suffering wife last Spring.

Thanks for bringing plywood that up. ;)

Later,

Tom