Battery frozen - ???
Try to start MH to day, bat. was dead, went to charge and noticed water in cells is solid ice, took bat inside to warm up, 3hrs still iced up. Is it frozen do death, or will it take a charge. This i...
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rgatijnet1 wrote:
The main reason to keep a battery charged in the Winter is so that it will not freeze. I think it is certain that your battery was discharged which is why the battery froze.
Unless you are going to keep a battery charger hooked up all of the time to your chassis battery, to keep it topped off, you had better disconnect it and bring it inside.
If it is fully charged and disconnected, it won't self-discharge enough to freeze over a winter unless it's already a bad battery. There's no need to take it inside to prevent freezing, assuming you are not in an actual arctic location. Disconnecting (if not provided with some means of keeping it charged) is important as there are usually parasitic loads that will discharge the battery over time.
