Battery Water.

You *never* add acid to a battery, you add electrolyte to the battery
under certain specific conditions, i.e., when the battery is fully
charged but the electrolyte level is low.

I seem to be the only person in the world that knows to add
electrolyte to a fully charged battery which has a low electrolyte
level.

 

Well, probably, but fair play: he's right. It doers happen (very)
occasionally.

 

Aah. My oversight. It was a KB-50J, used as a tanker, and converted from
original bombers, service 1957 to early 60s when they were replaced by
KC-135s.

 

The OP has *never* described the results of a voltage regulator
cycling test
or what RPM the engine was turning when he saw 14.39 volts on his
digital VM.

However, he did describe letting the engine idle while he shopped
garage sales.

That would definitely cause the battery to discharge and sulfate.

 

There were also WB-50J's, used to collect weather data. We had a bunch
of them
on Guam.

 

He's reading well over 14 volts and replenishing battery
water every 500 miles and those are indicationsof sulfation ?

That's really stupid.

 

It's still excessive.

No it wouldn't. Fuckwit.

 

Correct.

 

Not.

 

Not.

 

Straws are too big.

 

Have you owned a Japanese motorcycle made since the early 1970s? Have you
owned a motorcycle at all? Did the OP describe symptoms of chronic
undercharging? Do you have the slightest idea what you're talking about?

No, no, no, and no. What the **** is wrong with you? If you could at least
shut your yap after you've been called out, that would be different, but you
just keep going. You are poison to this newsgroup.

 

Ummm, what was that noisy two-wheeled contraption I just rode 100
miles through Giant Sequoia National Forest this morning, if it wasn't
a motorcycle?

Yes. He said that his battery is going through a lot of water. That's
a classic symptom of undercharging.

I sure do. I'm a graduate of multiple technical schools.

Nothing. I'm a helpful all-around nice guy.

Wrong. The poison in this NG for the last ten years is named Neil
Murray. He just loves to keep an argument going by undermining my
excellent answers.

 

Foolish to argue with idiots.

 

True, but Neil Murray won't go away.

 

I normally use a plastic baster from
the supermarket.

 

Bwaaahahahahahahaha!

 

They've worked for me, although I wouldn't try withdrawing electrolyte
with one.

 

Thanks for the pertinent answer - that's what I thought. Apparently the
boiling point of sulphuric acid is much higher than water. (And boiling
is not the same phenomenon as sulfation.)

(Since a ratio is involved, I don't see how adding electrolyte, as
opposed to water, at least to a battery that has been filled previously,
can achieve the desired specific gravity ratio, unless the addition has
a much higher ratio which seems unlikely, unless whatever sulphation
that has occurred can be preserved and maybe not even then for all I
know. Rough experience just seems to suggest to me that once a mistake
has been made with a lead-acid battery only a stroke of luck can renew
it anywhere close to perfection.)

 

The shop manual for my GSXR750 instructs me to adjust the specific
gravity of my electrolyte near the end of the estimated charging
period (which is based upon the known specific gravity, temperature
corrected).