Boiling sound from battery?

[amalventano at sc.rr.com (Allyn)]

battery was fully charged. when you overcharge a battery, it generated
excess hydrogen at the plates, which boils to the top, much like boiling
water. you dont generate heat unless you overcharge for extended periods of
time (which, luckily, you did not do).
Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ringham" <jrringha@adobe.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 3:45 PM
Subject: Boiling sound from battery?


> Yesterday morning, I hooked up the battery charger to my car since the
> battery was dead. I let it charge at 2 amps all day. The charger has a
green
> light that comes on when the battery is fully charged. It wasn't on yet,
so
> I flip the switch from 2 amps to 10 amps. The green light comes on and the
> battery starts making this boiling sound really loud, sounded like it was
> going to blow up. I quickly turned off the charger, and felt the battery
to
> see if it was hot. Nope. Any idea what that was? Freaked me out.
>
>
>
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