On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:19:40PM +1100, Matthew Geier wrote:
> >
> I'd be more worried about what you get when the sulphuric acid
> electrolyte mixes with salt water.
Item #1: Why would the two of them ever mix? The cells are essentially
sealed, even in FLAs. AGMs, of course, would just ignore all that
nonsense happening outside. :)
Item #2: HCl is normally produced by mixing sulfuric acid and salt.
Mixing the acid with seawater, which has an average salinity of 3.5%
(which includes all the salts, not just NaCL) will amost certainly do
nothing: the amount of water you'd need to collect even a small amount
of salt will instantly turn the acid into a very weak solution, before
any reaction can occur.
For what it's worth, several friends have mentioned accidentally
drowning their batteries (along with their fishing boats, etc.) Pretty
much all of them just rinsed them off and kept on using them. Anytime
I've heard of a sunken boat - and that's lots of times, over my 20+
years on the water - all anyone ever worries about is the engine. The
rest of the boat just gets a freshwater rinse and that's it.
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Ben Okopnik
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