Do NOT ADD WATER before charging them! We ran into this a LOT with the BB600 NiCd batteries. (BB600 Yahoo group) Charge first. Even if they look "empty". THEN if they aren't full, you can add any needed distilled water.
On Sat Mar 30 20:23:47 PDT 2013 [email protected] said: >Now the box loose cells are "dry". I don't know why, they don't appear >to have external damage. The valves are in place and intact. Can they >be restored by adding new electrolyte? What mix would I make there to >try? What happens if they "dried out" and the electrolyte turned to >powder, and thus would end up overconcentrated? > >These things ARE old- are there any tricks to dealing with them? They >appear to have been stored ok, caps in place and all. -- Tigers prowl and Dragons soar in my dreams... _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
