XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:50:24 +1100, Peter   
    wrote:   
      
   > Mighty✅ Wannabe✅ <@.> wrote:   
   >> People have the wrong impression that "distilled water" is the purest   
   >> form of water but that's not true. Common distilled water is obtained by   
   >> boiling water and collecting the condensed steam. The condensed steam is   
   >> not 100% pure H2O because there are chemicals in the water with lower   
   >> boiling point than H2O that will come over in the distillation process.   
   >>   
   >> The best way to get deionized water is to start the deionization process   
   >> with distilled water because there will be a lot less impurities to   
   >> remove, and distilled water is cheap and easy to get.   
   >   
   > It's a car battery. It's not a silicon based integrated circuit.   
   > Water is water. To a certain degree it's all the same thing.   
      
   Fraid not.   
      
   > I don't know the answer for sure,   
      
   That's obvious.   
      
   > but I would reason out that almost all   
   > tap water will be just fine in a car battery   
      
   Some tap water is quite hard and produces   
   lots of scales in an electric jug over time.   
      
   > although I don't doubt   
   > chlorine (or chloramines?) that they put in them might affect the   
   > lead:acid   
   > chemistry.   
      
   That doesn't.   
      
   > They add fluorine too I think,   
      
   Fluoride, not flourine.   
      
   > and there might be a decent amount of   
   > calcium carbonates   
      
   Yes, with hard water.   
      
   > and metallic ions such as copper and phosphorous.   
      
   Not normally enough to matter.   
      
   But some still have water from wells for their tap water.   
      
   > I'm guessing that the minute amount of such things (having owned a pool,   
   > I'm aware they're in the PPM range, and PPB for phosphorous) in a car   
   > battery designed to last five years, won't make one bit of difference.   
      
   Particularly as most don't add water to their car battery anymore with   
   sealed batterys.   
      
   > An example of tap water total alkalinity is around 50 to 200 PPM and the   
   > calcium hardness due to calcium salts would range a bit higher, maybe   
   > double (depending, of course, on the amount of old shallow seas in your   
   > area fifty to two hundred million years ago).   
      
   And how much limestone there is. Lots in some places.   
      
   > But distilled water is cheap and rain water is even cheaper, and, in   
   > fact,   
   > so is tap water - so since they're all dirt cheap, may as well use the   
   > rain   
   > water.   
      
   Or distilled water given that its cheap and you dont use much.   
      
   > That's how I see it from a reasoned approach, where I'm very familiar   
   > with   
   > the scare tactics pool stores try to pull on people when they find   
   > something, anything, to say "oh that's going to damage your equipment."   
   >   
   > Same technique those Indian "Microsoft support tech" try to pull on you   
   > when _they_ call you and tell you to look in the Event Viewer and all   
   > those   
   > errors indicate your computer needs their expert help with ransomware   
   > addition.   
   >   
   > Overall, does ANYONE have ANY real data that tap water actually degrades   
   > a   
   > car batter enough for someone to actually measure the results in 5 years?   
      
   The battery manufacturers do.   
      
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