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Corrosion trouble on batterie

wesley

wesley

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I'm having trouble with a lot of corrosion around my battery terminals. I've also seen a build up in the battery box as well. I just clean up the terminal and cable clamp a few weeks ago and the problem is back again. Do I have a bad battery? What can I do to clean up the terminal and keep it from happening again. What can I do to clean the box without scraping and vacuuming?
 
A light coating of grease on the terminals will help with the corrosion there. A baking soda solution will help stop the corrosion of the box. There is no easy way to clean the box but spraying it with an oil helps stop the rust. Are you sure you are not over charging and boiling the battery?
 
wesley, either your battery is going bad, as in losing a cell, or you are overcharging the battery. I would get the charging system checked to make sure that your alternator or generator, depending on configuration, is not producing to many volts. This will eventually kill your battery. If the charge test is okay, then the battery needs to be checked for a bed cell. If you know somebody that has one, use a load tester rather than one of the newer diagnostic boxes. Load testers are actually more reliable for checking a battery because it forces the battery to perform its function.
 
there are several problems that could be causing this and some have been mentioned all ready first baking soda is a good way to clean your termanals but remember by it'self baking soda is also corosive baking soda is a base opposite an acid. when using baking soda you must flush every thing well or you will have deposits showing up in a few days again i prefer just to clean with high pressure water. second if you have a battery with tops that are removable use a hydrometer to check each cell the specific gravity should be about 1280 accross all 6 cells if one is low toss the battery and replace it with an agm type battery. if every thing checks out to iclude a charging system charging between 13.8 volts and 14.5 than here is my solution clean the post with water and a wire brush lay a bead of silicone around the base of the termanal install the termanal seal the rest of the termanal with liquid electrical tape and as long as the termanals stay sealed you have no problems.
 
All are great and will work to solve corrosion problems. But if you have a lead acid battery no matter what you do there will always be corrosion problems. The best way to solve corrosion issues is to install a sealed battery such as optima or orbital, you will spend more initially but over time cleaning and checking the a lead acid battery you will be glad with a sealed battery.

Some people say optima and orbital batteries aren't worth the money, they don't last, my opinion they are great Dan worth every cent, they are a little over priced but hasn't stopped me from purchasing two more last week for my new snow cat. That will make ten sealed batteries that I run every day at home and another 15 in the farm that get seasonal use for the last two years.


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Nate b said:
All are great and will work to solve corrosion problems. But if you have a lead acid battery no matter what you do there will always be corrosion problems. The best way to solve corrosion issues is to install a sealed battery such as optima or orbital, you will spend more initially but over time cleaning and checking the a lead acid battery you will be glad with a sealed battery.

Some people say optima and orbital batteries aren't worth the money, they don't last, my opinion they are great Dan worth every cent, they are a little over priced but hasn't stopped me from purchasing two more last week for my new snow cat. That will make ten sealed batteries that I run every day at home and another 15 in the farm that get seasonal use for the last two years.


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Nate, I am glad you like the optima type. Mostly I can find better ways to waste money. Consider, an optima is appr double the cost of a sealed l/a battery. It also only lasts about 4 yrs under normal use, about the same as a l/a. So you are throwing away a hundred dollars per battery that culd be better spent on other things. By the way, if properly maintained, clean terminals, preventive maintenance, correct voltage, etc, l/a batteries don't often cause acid build up.
 
muleman said:
A light coating of grease on the terminals will help with the corrosion there. A baking soda solution will help stop the corrosion of the box. There is no easy way to clean the box but spraying it with an oil helps stop the rust. Are you sure you are not over charging and boiling the battery?
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About 3 years ago someone suggested spraying terminals with Fluid Film. My coach has a dozen huge batteries and I have probably another two dozen battery started pieces of equipment/vehicles. After spraying them with Fluid Film, I've not seen any corrosion or white fluffy (and corrosive) powder on them.
 
I do what Dargo said with the same, clean results. Do have your system checked as others noted.
 
Mine corroded up every few days from a leak around the battery post. New battery fixed the problem.
 
No one will ever agree on the same batteries, I personally have had great luck with sealed batteries.


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We spray all of the battery conections and all the grounds as well as any electrical conection that is not sealed on every unit that leaveshere with something called chemsearch clear guard. It is a rubberized coating. works really good.
 
No one will ever agree on the same batteries, I personally have had great luck with sealed batteries.
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FWIW, I've got Optimas in a Pinzgauer I own and I'm very pleased with them. They're only about 3 y.o. so far, but they've worked well. I mounted them in the traditional location, but I've seen some creative mounting allowed because they don't have to be upright. One added benefit is that if/when you tip over they don't spill. (How would I know?...) I guess time will tell how they hold up.
 
i have 13 years on the optimas in my ctd dodge prior to that it was replacing a set of lead acid 31's every 2 years the optimas wern't much more expensive i have also gotten 10 years of service out of a hawker 31 serise agm battery that i was told was junk. in my mind the agm batterys aer worth the money. except for the exide orbatale in the military we ordered exide orbatals as they could be purchaced localy most didn't last a year all were replaced with hawker 31's and to this day most aer still in the bv 206's that we installed them in.
 
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