Battery accident!!
I bought a battery last summer, Group 27 deep cycle. I just found out that it tipped over and spilled the electrolyte. Most of the acid is gone. I have no idea of the state of the left over acid, e...
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Boon Docker wrote:westend wrote:
If the battery sat for any length of time tipped over, it is toast. You can try to fill it with distilled water and charge it but there is little chance it will recover.
You got me curious.
How does adding distilled water to a spilled battery replace all the sulfuric acid that was lost?
The Lead Acid battery is made up of plates, lead, and lead oxide (various other elements are used to change density, hardness, porosity, etc.) with a 35% sulfuric acid and 65% water solution. This solution is called electrolyte, which causes a chemical reaction that produce electrons. When you test a battery with a hydrometer, you are measuring the amount of sulfuric acid in the electrolyte. If your reading is low, that means the chemistry that makes electrons is lacking. So where did the sulfur go? It is resting on the battery plates and when you recharge the battery, the sulfur returns to the electrolyte.
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