Can a battery tender “boil off” a wet cell battery?
• I hooked up my wet cell one night and it started to gurgle almost right away. I didn’t think much of it and opted to rely on the float feature to turn off the tender when the battery reached an optimal charge. I guess it never did. In the morning, the charge light was lit but it wasn’t gurgling. I thought, “OK, maybe the light is broken. I’ll check it after the Mardi Gras Rally.” I fired up the bike and flogged it for a couple hundred miles to just north of Lake Ponchartrain. I ran my aux lights the whole way (oh, and my Scott’s oil filter, too. There’s no relevance there but I thought it really important for you to know). I shut the bike off and fell asleep at the Crack House on Lake Datgurlneesumbeeds. In the morning, my bike wouldn’t start. I peeled the hide off my bike and checked the battery. It was bone dry.
