Posted by Mark - IN. on May 11, 2008 at 20:57:14 from (64.12.117.74):
In Reply to: battery charging posted by StuBC on May 11, 2008 at 16:16:46:
If its hissing, I'm guessing that you're charging it with closed caps. As mentioned below, they do put off gasses as charging, so have the caps open, and don't cause sparks while charging by doing things like moving the charger clamps around while its venting gasses. I saw a guy blow one up doing just that. You really should check its specific gravity as also mentioned below. Some folks add distilled water if the level's down, but I pickup electrolyte (comes in small bottles) from the auto parts guy and add that instead. Its cheap.
Decades back as a kid when worked at an auto parts store after school, sometimes folks would come in poorer than church mice with dead batteries on the coldest days of the years, often scraping pennies together to buy the cheapest battery that we sold, and often didn't have enough for that. I used to take a tester and test batteries we'd taken in as cores, find the best one, clean it and toss it on a charger filled with distilled water mixed with lite liquid dish soap until bubbled good, then rinse it out good, then fill it with new electrolyte and charge it and test it. Then I'd swap it with their's...a core is a core, so long as I got one back and send them on their way after charging them 25 or 50 cents for the electrolyte. Usually got them through the winter, and they usually came back pretty greatful down the road when they could afford to buy a new one. I figure doesn't hurt nobody to help someone when I can, and try not to leave folks stranded.
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