RE: [A/S] Battery Question

["Robert Cornute" <ccornut1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don; You can do either!  Bob Cornute WBCCI 4952 & VAC

> While getting our AS ready for the summer I noticed the batteries were 
> not as fully charged as they could be so I pulled them, brought them 
> home and put them on a charger.  They came up nicely to a specific 
> gravity of 1275 so I put them in the back of the truck this afternoon 
> and headed back to the storage lot.  Much to my dismay, when I dropped 
> the tailgate I found one battery was lying on its side in a puddle of 
> electrolyte! Fortunately the loss was small enough that the plates are 
> still covered but the electrolyte is low enough that it won't take much 
> more loss to uncover them.  Where do I go from here?  Do I add water to 
> bring the level back up (and dilute the existing electrolyte) or do I 
> obtain additional electrolyte to replace that which was lost?