Distilled or Deionized?
For batteries? Both bottles say "Good For Lead Acid Batteries"
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Having processed water for superheated boiler use we made pure water using three different methods.
Distilled......huge evaporator that boiled the supply water under vacuum then condensed the vapor resulting in pure water.....no salts/minerals
Deionized......huge cation beds and anion beds that supply water was forced thru leaving behind the different salts/minerals based on their 'ion' charge
RO System......huge multi-pass membranes and electrically charged filters leaving behind salts/minerals
All of them resulted in clean water.
Each needed additional 'treatment' for use in our boilers (hydrazine, ammonia, phosphates)
Any of them are good enough for batteries.
Distilled is recommended
Tap water can be used but can reduce life, cause corrosion, result in self-discharging etc depending on which solids are in the tap water
Distilled......huge evaporator that boiled the supply water under vacuum then condensed the vapor resulting in pure water.....no salts/minerals
Deionized......huge cation beds and anion beds that supply water was forced thru leaving behind the different salts/minerals based on their 'ion' charge
RO System......huge multi-pass membranes and electrically charged filters leaving behind salts/minerals
All of them resulted in clean water.
Each needed additional 'treatment' for use in our boilers (hydrazine, ammonia, phosphates)
Any of them are good enough for batteries.
Distilled is recommended
Tap water can be used but can reduce life, cause corrosion, result in self-discharging etc depending on which solids are in the tap water
