[RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

[R. Walters]

Matt;

I've used the watering systems for years as well, but never the tap  
connect.
We have hard water here too, good to know that our distilled water  
mania is not in vain.

Ray


On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Matt wrote:

> Ray,
>
> We sell plenty of watering systems, but none are fed from an actual  
> pressurized tap. The "best" one uses a manual water release on top  
> of each cap; this prevents over-filling when (not if) something  
> sticks.
>
> I have never used non-distilled water in a battery, but I have  
> replaced a couple of banks that were wrecked by using well water  
> with a high mineral content.
>
> Matt
> ---- "R. Walters" <walters at taosnet.com> wrote:
>> I never used it, but Battery Watering Systems has used them for
>> years. The rep I talked to thought we in the solar biz were quite
>> cautious on this.
>> I still use distilled H2O, myself BTW.
>> Have you actually experienced ruined batteries from ionized or
>> filtered H2O?
>> Also, if you reread Jamie's previous response, it sounds like they
>> aren't even using distilled H2O to build them either.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Matt wrote:
>>
>>> This is a majorly bad idea! Tap water usually contains dissolved
>>> minerals that will screw up battery plates, reduce or increase
>>> conductivity and generally void battery warrantees.
>>>
>>> Am I correct about this Jamie?
>>>
>>> Matt
>>> ---- "R. Walters" <walters at taosnet.com> wrote:
>>>> Some of the single point battery watering systems have a pressure
>>>> regulator that plumbs right to the water tap with a small filter.
>>>> Apparently we in the solar business are more anal about using
>>>> distilled water than many other battery users.
>>>>
>>>> Ray
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:46 PM, James Surrette wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI, Deionized water is commonly used in battery manufacturing and
>>>>> large motive power applications;
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.philadelphiascientific.com/deionizer.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jamie
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>

R. Walters
Solarray.com
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