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profdant139
Explorer II
Nov 02, 2020

Battery water falls very slightly in Cell Six?

I usually check my battery water every month. (These are group 31 flooded marine batteries from NAPA.). I almost never have to add any water. I keep the batteries hooked up to a Battery Minder Plu...
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BFL13
Explorer II
Nov 03, 2020
My battery book says charging is also an oxidation process that corrodes the positive plates with prolonged overcharging (as when the float voltage is a bit too high I guess).

The positive post is to the first positive plate in series in the battery, so would it get corroded more than the others and would that make for more gassing from its cell than from the others?

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