Battery water?

[wickle]

Saw bottles of it at Repco Thursday by batteries

[Skyryder]

Many thanks all.



Skyryder

[Sam I Am]

super market it's used in steam iron

[fliplid]

The water from the tap round here aint good for drinking let alone chucking in your battery!

[Laxi]

my old man always has bottles of tap water that he keeps in a cuboard in the garrage (got an emergancy kit?) hes done that for 40 odd years without a problem

[Max Preload]

Forget distilled & de-ionised - demineralised is what you want. Some people think dehumidifier water is ok but it's the filthiest crap you can imagine.

[BMWST?]

in welly i have always used tap water....get very good life out of my batteries.The trick is to keep the fluid level up to the max

[shafty]

good old rain water

You've got it Right Madmax - rainwater - leave a bucket out!

[Soul.Trader]

Rainwater is filthy. It picks up a lot of crap on its way down.

[peasea]

I've seen so many auto-sparkies pour ordinary tap water into batteries it isn't funny. I've always used tap water and if your battery dies shortly afterward.....I'll bet you a pound to a knob of goat's shit it was fucked anyway.

If your battery is boiling off water check your charge rate, it might be too high.

[KiwiRat]

Forget distilled & de-ionised - demineralised is what you want. Some people think dehumidifier water is ok but it's the filthiest crap you can imagine.

Demineralised and de-ionised water is the same thing. The ion exchange process removes the offending minerals.

[SMOKEU]

It depends where you get your tap water from. Christchurch tap water is great so it doesn't harm batteries, can't say the same about other towns/cities though.

[vifferman]

I buy 10L containers of distilled water from the supermarket for under $10. Use it in the steam iron, batteries, radiators, etc.
My last few bikes have semi-sealed batteries, so don't need topping up, but the VF500 had a battery that I only ever used distilled water in, and it was still good when I sold the bike after nearly 6 years of use.

[MarkH]

Forget distilled & de-ionised - demineralised is what you want.

I find it hard to imagine that there would be any problem with using distilled water - that stuff should be pure enough for the purpose. I kinda think that distilled, de-ionised or demineralised water is all good and much better than tap water unless you know the tap water where you live is fine.

A friend used to live on a farm and had bore water - that shit was full of iron and definitely a no-no for topping up the battery.

[sil3nt]

I got hold of NDORFN's old battery and a few of the cells were below the low level mark. I purchased some battery water from repco to top it up but i was too lazy to actually do it and the battery has done several hundred k's in the bike just fine. Today i thought i better top it up so i pull the battery out and all the cells are right where they should be Any reason for this?