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Water
By GeeMac, Section Storage Posted on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 03:27:21 PM MST
Supermarket solution or not.

Is distilled bottled water in the supermarket good enough to used to top off lead acid batteries?

Water | 8 comments (8 topical)

Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by Tritium on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 09:38:40 AM MST

I don't see why it wouldn't be. I use RO processed water for mine though.

Thurmond

Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by jimjjnn on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 11:26:10 AM MST

What is RO?
Denver,CO
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Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by zap on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 11:52:47 AM MST

I think they're referring to Reverse Osmosis.

zap
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Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by jimjjnn on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 03:08:29 PM MST

ZAP, Thank you
Denver,CO
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Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by zap on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 09:54:34 PM MST

You bet Jim.

Nice weather eh? Should help with the Xcel bill!

zap
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Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by scottsAI on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 11:05:11 AM MST

GeeMac,

Yes, distilled bottled water is what you should be using to top off a flooded lead acid battery.
If using RO, depending on your source water, best if run through a deionizer before using the water. If your source water is low in minerals before RO, deionizer may not be necessary.

Have fun,
Scott.

Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by Jimmy D on Thu Dec 11, 2008 at 11:00:38 AM MST

Hello GeeMac,
Where I live in Ontario we need a dehumidifier, I've always used the accumulated water for car batteries and more recently for my RE bank. Not many minerals in humidity and it's free :)
Jim

Re: Water (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by Capt Slog on Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 02:30:42 AM MST

If you're going to do this, make sure that the water doesn't come into contact with metals. The brief contact on the elements when it condenses wont hurt, but keeping it in metal containers (a tray that catched the condensate?) can leach that metal into the water. OK, it's not a lot, but it is there and I don't know how much metal will affect a battery.

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"Slowly changing the world, one watt at a time!"
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Water | 8 comments (8 topical)

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