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mrad
Explorer II
Jan 13, 2020

Why are my batteries water overflowing during charging?

Yesterday I brought in my two deep cycle batteries from my boat and the one from my camper for winter storage. I check all of the water levels and had ended up adding some distilled water to each, br...
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Gjac
Explorer III
Jan 19, 2020
2oldman wrote:
Gjac wrote:
my 2 6V CG Sams Club batteries now in their 13 year and still working fine with better maintenance.
Dry camp much?
I dry camp 95% of the time. When travailing cross country Every 7 days I will stop at a FHU CG to recharge batteries fully and do laundry and fill water tanks. Locally in the NE I will dry camp for a week and recharge when I get home. In 7 days of dry camping batteries are at 50% SOC and I am out of water.

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