by "christofire" <christofire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 1, 2008 at 08:45 PM
"rabiticide" <rabiticide@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:75c1d0cb-82e4-4396-9990-6257eb53051f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Battery now works!!!
> I put distilled water into my dry, dead battery, then I charged it,
> and it cranks beautifully and started my motorcycle!!!
>
> The conducty thingies (anodes and cathodes?) don't go all the way down
> so I think I boiled the water down to that level at which point the
> contact was broken and the overcharging stopped. This is my
> hypothesis. The H2SO4 didn't go anywhere because it was below that
> level and has a much higher boiling point than water.
>
> I was asking guys over at the motorcycle group and they were saying
> that a lot of battery chargers are too powerful for motorcycle
> batteries. Thanks for the help!!
>
>
> rK
Huh? But you said it was dry (i.e. not wet) and I believe the definition
of
the word isn't specific to H2O alone.
Surely if you were aware of acid slo****ng about at the bottom of the case
you wouldn't have used the word 'dry'!?
Chris
