|On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:55:09 +0100, Dave Fawthrop wrote: | |> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:26:16 +0100, Steve Firth |> wrote: |> |>|On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:39:41 +0100, Dave Fawthrop wrote: |>| |>|> Leisure batteries (when not maintenance free) require topping up at |>|> intervals. Insist that your customer tops up the battery at regular |>|> intervals. 2 monthly should be fine, if you install some sort of charge |>|> controller. |>| |>|Errrm, if he fits a solar panel and a Rutland (or similar) controller the |>|idea is that the battery will be topped up continuously in daylight hours. |>|The problem is that in winter the days will be short, the sun will be of |>|much lesser intensity and snowfall or days of low cloud will leave the |>|possibility that the panel fails to charge the battery. This is why a |>|second source such as a wind generator is a good idea. |> |> Sorry I meant top up with distilled/deionised water. |> I lost a leisure battery with zig charge controller through not topping it |> up with distilled/deionised water :-( | |I'd suspect the charge controller. It sounds like it was boiling the |battery.
No I checked the zig charger it worked fine, just the occasional bubble, but over a year the occasional bubble adds up to quite a lot of water. The battery I replaced it with works fine after several years, topping up with deionised water every month or two. Also Sulphuric acid does evaporate, just like water.