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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Richard Neal on January 31, 2011, 09:56:26 pm

Title: Can I Top Up My Leisure Battery With Pure Water?
Post by: Richard Neal on January 31, 2011, 09:56:26 pm
 is it the same as distilled water?
Title: Re: Can I Top Up My Leisure Battery With Pure Water?
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on January 31, 2011, 10:01:46 pm
yes i do it
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Post by: mci services on January 31, 2011, 10:21:56 pm
hope so I do
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Post by: lozsing on January 31, 2011, 10:59:30 pm
Me too
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Post by: windowswashed on February 01, 2011, 12:01:23 am
Yes you can. I did the other day, have done for years.
Title: Re: Can I Top Up My Leisure Battery With Pure Water?
Post by: Londoner on February 01, 2011, 06:58:44 am
If it needs topping up its not a leisure battery. The whole meaning of a leisure battery is that it is sealed and so is safe to have inside living areas like caravans and on things that might spill acid if tipped up like on golf trolleys.

The point is IMO those sealed batteries are not worth the expense for window cleaning, plus they never seem to last long. A small car battery lasts longer and is cheaper.
Title: Re: Can I Top Up My Leisure Battery With Pure Water?
Post by: Spruce on February 01, 2011, 07:46:50 am
Quote from: Vince Green on February 01, 2011, 06:58:44 am
If it needs topping up its not a leisure battery. The whole meaning of a leisure battery is that it is sealed and so is safe to have inside living areas like caravans and on things that might spill acid if tipped up like on golf trolleys.

The point is IMO those sealed batteries are not worth the expense for window cleaning, plus they never seem to last long. A small car battery lasts longer and is cheaper.

I got 3 leisure batteries over the years from a caravan outlet near Darlington and all 3 had filler caps to check water level and add water if necessary. There are different types of leisure batteries though. The last one I got a couple of weeks ago is a Numax and that is sealed.  Interesting.
Spruce
Title: Re: Can I Top Up My Leisure Battery With Pure Water?
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on February 01, 2011, 01:58:04 pm
Quote from: Spruce on February 01, 2011, 07:46:50 am
Quote from: Vince Green on February 01, 2011, 06:58:44 am
If it needs topping up its not a leisure battery. The whole meaning of a leisure battery is that it is sealed and so is safe to have inside living areas like caravans and on things that might spill acid if tipped up like on golf trolleys.

The point is IMO those sealed batteries are not worth the expense for window cleaning, plus they never seem to last long. A small car battery lasts longer and is cheaper.

I got 3 leisure batteries over the years from a caravan outlet near Darlington and all 3 had filler caps to check water level and add water if necessary. There are different types of leisure batteries though. The last one I got a couple of weeks ago is a Numax and that is sealed.  Interesting.
Spruce

gel batteries are sealed acid ones arent, my leisure battery can be topped up, I would only use water if it has passed through a DI vessel as its the ions in the water that damage the battery.


Matt
Title: Re: Can I Top Up My Leisure Battery With Pure Water?
Post by: Ian101 on February 01, 2011, 04:53:51 pm
dont see why not according to some on here pure water is like acid anyway  ;)