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Re: [VAL] Re:Battery boiling, Help !



Dr.Johnson and Mr.Tom : I've received a couple of responses one from you and 
one from Tom.Thanks for the input.I'll take both of these responses under 
advisement.I think what I'll do short term is keep the battery out of the 
trailer ( which is probably why is wasn't in there to start with),"re-hab" the 
battery with the electrolyte.Long term may buy new batteries and a battery 
charger that intermediately allows charges to go into the battery.
 Just a thought ,Tom said that the older style battery chargers go full blast.
With that thought in mind is it possible to hard wire in a switch at the 
battery where by I may just simply turn off the charges as they go into the 
battery until I want to charge the battery? I'm at work here at the fire 
station,but basically the wiring is this : two wires (red) come down  and 
connect to the positive side of the battery ( coming from ? ) and one ground 
wire which goes to the ground post of the battery.What I've done and it seems 
to be working ,connected the two red wires together Via some electrical tape 
and simply taped the ground wire off by itself not connected at any point to 
any thing
 I have to go off duty here in a few minutes but I'll be checking in for y'alls 
responses during the course of the day.Thanks again ,more than you know.Tom B.