What's eating my batteries? (Please help:()
Alright so after two months of being parked at a rv park while my wife completed her first travel nursing assignment we decided to go do some boondocking in one of the many national forests up here in...
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Ok I pulled them out and the one seems to have plenty of water, it's about halfway up the inch deep openings. The other one however has a little bit in two of the three openings on the positive side and I can't see it in the third. The positive side is worse, I can't see any liquid in any of the three. However if I rock it a bit I can hear a liquid down there. There are pictures down below.
So I am going to buy some distilled water and fill it back up. Are these not sealed batteries then? Since these batteries are only three months old, assuming one is bad and one is good, could I just buy one new one if I can find an identical one? My charger does seem in fact seem to be one that just runs at 13.6v all the time, if I can't change converters right away, would I just be able to keep refilling the batteries as necessary and they wouldn't be damaged from that? If so how often should I check them to be safe? My solar charger is an MPPT and is set for sealed lead acid, I assume it would be smart enough not to boil off my batteries?
Sorry for the barrage of questions, I just want to figure out what went wrong, and even more importantly, how to keep it from happening again.
You all have been extremely helpful.
Tim Czarkowski
TotalTravelers.com
So I am going to buy some distilled water and fill it back up. Are these not sealed batteries then? Since these batteries are only three months old, assuming one is bad and one is good, could I just buy one new one if I can find an identical one? My charger does seem in fact seem to be one that just runs at 13.6v all the time, if I can't change converters right away, would I just be able to keep refilling the batteries as necessary and they wouldn't be damaged from that? If so how often should I check them to be safe? My solar charger is an MPPT and is set for sealed lead acid, I assume it would be smart enough not to boil off my batteries?
Sorry for the barrage of questions, I just want to figure out what went wrong, and even more importantly, how to keep it from happening again.
You all have been extremely helpful.
Tim Czarkowski
TotalTravelers.com
