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Optimistic Paranoid wrote:
There's no reason to unhook the wires, nor even, I believe to shut down any loads. All you're doing is physically checking the fluid level, which is NOT affected by any electricity flowing in or out of the battery at the time.
Ideally, you want to use distilled water for longest battery life. In an emergency, if there were really low cells and no distilled water available, I, personally would use any water that I could drink and that didn't have any funny taste.
Distilled water is specified because any dissolved minerals in water could potentially contaminate the cells, and shorten both their capacity and their life. But I think running them with plates exposed to the air does even more damage.
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