Battery water?

[ManDownUnder]

good old rain water

Dat's the one!!!!!!!!!!

[doc]

I've tried a couple of chemists for distilled water but no luck.

Anyone know where you can get it.



Skyryder

Get with the programme ,modern bikers use gel batteries. Water got too expensive

[MarkH]

Get with the programme ,modern bikers use gel batteries. Water got too expensive

Mine is sealed - no topping it up. In fact Suzuki mount it upside down I believe (haven't yet taken a look) so I am doubly glad it is sealed.

[1wheel riot]

you get a pot of water get it boiling and put a big lid or sumthing over it on a angle and a bowl under the low end of the lid so the steam gose up from the pot hits the lid runs down the lid and drips in to the bowl and the water thats in the bowl will be pure water. or just put a bowl out side and cach some rain water thats pure to.

[LBD]

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

In a plastic bucket

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

Only near Auckland, Wellington or Chch

[Macros]

New Zealand tap water is perfectly fine. It's what you're mechanic has been putting in. Special water is only really used in other countries with average tap water.

[Max Preload]

New Zealand tap water is perfectly fine. It's what you're mechanic has been putting in. Special water is only really used in other countries with average tap water.

As long as you ignore mind the calcium, sulphate, chloride, fluoride, magnesium, potassium, sodium and any number of other trace contaminants which batteries don't react well to, that is. That which we biological carbon-based lifeforms can tolerate is not the same for everything - try your cellphone in a glass of tap water and see how well that works after.

you get a pot of water get it boiling and put a big lid or sumthing over it on a angle and a bowl under the low end of the lid so the steam gose up from the pot hits the lid runs down the lid and drips in to the bowl and the water thats in the bowl will be pure water

Once again, distilled water is not necessarily clean.

... or just put a bowl outside and catch some rain water thats pure too.

Only near Auckland, Wellington or Chch

Do you really think the airborne particulates collected by falling rainwater, from clouds, which themselves often seed from dust particles, is concentrated only around the major cities?

[LBD]

Do you really think the airborne particulates collected by falling rainwater, from clouds, which themselves often seed from dust particles, is concentrated only around the major cities?

Guess your comic cynism meter was turned off when you read that huh?

[Max Preload]

Guess your comic cynism meter was turned off when you read that huh?

Might have been. I am at my place of work on a f'n SATURDAY!

[JMemonic]

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.

Apart from the fact it carries a huge amount of calcium, hence the crap that builds up in the bottom of the jug http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Water/HowWeGe...alAnalysis.asp

[LBD]

Might have been. I am at my place of work on a f'n SATURDAY!

Overtime $$$$$in these times of economic uncertainty?????

[Max Preload]

Overtime $$$$$in these times of economic uncertainty?????

No such thing as O/T for me. I'm just an lowly contractor with too much work. I am however paid by the hour, at my exhorbitant rate.

[Motig]

Better some sort of water than none at all I would think. Personally I've always used the jug water with no problems.

[sondela]

- try your cellphone in a glass of tap water and see how well that works after.

Once again, distilled water is not necessarily clean.

Ok so I give up..how do you get clean enough water for cell phones to work in then?

[Max Preload]

Ok so I give up..how do you get clean enough water for cell phones to work in then?

It's not about the water... it's about the shit in the water. Cellphones don't like water as batteries don't like contamination in the electrolyte.