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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
Once in a while in the winter I put the battery charger on my Boxster battery. The kind of battery is a Canadian Tire product about 3 years old. It has the screw caps(6) on top presumably to put distilled water in.
The question is this - should the screw tops be removed while I am charging the battery? Perhaps the caps are vented anyway. How does it work with sealed batteries - are they vented?
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Not knowing the charging rate, it depends. If a cell is faulty, it might overheat even at a relatively low charge rate. Remove the vent caps and monitor the electrolyte level in each cell just to be safe.
Yes. "Sealed" batteries are internally vented.
Sherwood