[AT] Having battery problems--so how to fix?

Henry Miller hank at millerfarm.com
Sun Mar 26 18:33:51 PST 2006


On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:27, Larry D. Goss wrote:

> How on earth do you regularly check the liquid
> level in a sealed battery?

If you find a good way let me know.    Country to popular belief, sealed 
batteries do need maintenance.  Not as often as conventional batteries, but 
they still need the fluid topped off once in a while.  However because it is 
sealed there is nothing you can do (at least nothing that is safe without 
equipment that nobody owns), and you end up getting rid of a battery that 
could be perfectly good for a few more years if it had been maintained all 
along.   

The average person wouldn't do the maintenance anyway, so for the average 
idiot the sealed batteries do last longer, perhaps even as long as a 
conventional battery, but they could last longer.




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