Being an old guy I didn't remember changing to a dry cell battery in my 63. About a quart. HELP! What is the solution?
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
Are you saying your lead/acid battery went dry and you put just water in it?
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
No Richard, I put water in a gell cell battery. It was flat dead at the time after leaving the key on. I forgot that I had changed to a gell cell battery. Where are Mike ,Joe,Duke and Clem on this?Comment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
hmmm ok I misunderstood. Assuming its an Optima Gel Cell... red top... most likely trashed. They don't like complete discharges. I'm sure if it wasn't done for... adding water killed it.
I had the same problem in my red top. Complete discharge killed it. I switched to a yellow top. They will survive a bit better.
People will flame now... those that don't like gel cells at least...
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
The battery is a Restoration Battery unit.Comment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
Perhaps you should send Mike ,Joe,Duke and Clem a private massage....Good carburetion is fuelish hot air . . .Comment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
Heheh I agree. I had to google "Restoration Battery Unit" to see what it was...
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
I'd say you need a new battery.
Tom Hendricks
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
I may be wrong, but I'll sure check today to make sure as I have one as well. I believe the removable caps are there just for looks and the chambers below into which you put water are non-functional. That was my impression anyway. I had a lead acid battery of theirs before and the dry battery I have to replace it looks identical in every respect including the date stamp. The only difference was the significant less weight. You notice this when you pull the old one out and put the new one in - night and day.
Stu FoxComment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
Stan;
I was wrong. I just found the paper work on my battery. It is a DC12REV, and it has a very strongly worded instruction CAUTION!!! "This is a maintenance free battery. DO NOT ADD ACID OR WATER!!!" "DO NOT ALLOW IT TO CHARGE ABOVE 15.0 VOLTS AND DO NOT JUMP START!!!" They recommend charging it with a 10 amp. automatic charger for 2 hours. A full charge (100%) will be with a 12.84 reading on a voltmeter.
They say they do not warranty an overcharged battery, or if acid or water is added to the battery.
I keep mine on a "Battery Minder" and that seems to have worked well so far. Guess we should take their instructions to heart as these babies aren't cheap.
Stu FoxComment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
For anyone's information regarding AGM or Gell batteries, a pretty good article is on page 74 of the September issue of Hot Rod magazine which describes how to bring an AGM (Optima) battery back from the dead. Seems most of us have been using our old trusty chargers that are not able to sense the battery's presence when it's voltage drops below about 4.2 volts and they will refuse to deliver current. This can happen with some chargers and batteries even at points below 10.5 volts. Newer chargers have control circuitry to deal with this problem. They show a method (again for AGM batteries) to trick the charger by connecting another well charged battery (12.4 volts or greater) in parallel with the dead battery.
They say the newer chargers also have a position marked "AGM/Gell", but they don't recommend using it. I'm not sure whether their "trick" method can be used on the Gell batteries. The jumping CAUTION would probably not be a concern as in their method it would be connecting in parallel, not series.
Stu FoxComment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
I don't have any experience with batteries other than conventional lead-acid, however, most current "maintenance free" batteries made by Johnson Controls have 3-gang removeable caps.
One that I have is now ten years old and I've removed the caps and added a little distilled water to bring it up to full about every three years.
DukeComment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
Try the "parallel" trick recommended by Stu Fox. It works for severe discharges on boat batteries - you have nothing to lose.Comment
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Re: I put water in my dry cell battery. What's next
Restoration Battery said "Empty it out", "Dry it out" and charge it @ 10 amps. It's ready to charge now. I'll give the results later. Thanks to all! stan 19259Comment
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