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Who can tell me about a cooked battery? Took the little Scout out for a nice day on our beautiful mountain lake and when I got to our dock, I noted a smell, electrical and plastic like. Opened the engine compartment and when I bent down I could hear a fast boiling sound. Felt the three batteries and the third one was too hot to hold my fingers on!!
I feel like I have just avoided a real disaster, but even as I type this it is still too hot to hold my finger on 30 minutes later, but the boiling sounds have stopped. I don't see any evidence of battery acid coming out, no spillage, so I don't think it has boiled all the water out.
I have enclosed pictures of the battery set up. What the heck cause this? A regular should stop the alternator from overcharging right? The thing I find interesting is that it is just one battery of the three that is cooked off.
So I cut the shore power, and turned the battery switches off. Something somewhere has gone haywire, but this type of thing could actually be dangerous.
Anyone ever have this happen? I have heard of boat fires caused by batteries. Here are a few pictures I took. Dern things are hard to get to and heavy.
I feel like I have just avoided a real disaster, but even as I type this it is still too hot to hold my finger on 30 minutes later, but the boiling sounds have stopped. I don't see any evidence of battery acid coming out, no spillage, so I don't think it has boiled all the water out.
I have enclosed pictures of the battery set up. What the heck cause this? A regular should stop the alternator from overcharging right? The thing I find interesting is that it is just one battery of the three that is cooked off.
So I cut the shore power, and turned the battery switches off. Something somewhere has gone haywire, but this type of thing could actually be dangerous.
Anyone ever have this happen? I have heard of boat fires caused by batteries. Here are a few pictures I took. Dern things are hard to get to and heavy.
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