Why is my car battery smoking
Boiling car battery
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hey what's up YouTube so some of you
might know I don't know if you know or
not but I've been working at an auto
parts store now for a few months and I
like the job a lot and seems like I'm
learning something new every 15 minutes
because it's not just Honda's I'm
working on to get all kinds old stuff
and I don't know much about American
cars but anyways so I start thinking you
know when I see something pretty cool
that I learned how to make a video share
it so I learned a lot of weird stuff a
lot of parts where world that you know
it's not really exciting we're sharing
but every once I learned something tip
or something that's kind of neat in it
so I'm going to try start making videos
showing those tips as they learn them so
today I want to focus in on car battery
here and I want to show you something
that I found out the other day so
they're going to zoom in here and I'll
swing around by the camera and my
battery the cap sits low so you can't
really see it but I found out you can
actually have a battery that boils and
so if you ever have your battery like
boiling over and the customer in this
case his battery he opened up those caps
and they were low and so he filled it
with some water
one thing you should do is if you're
gonna do something like that you should
use a distilled water not just the hose
water and I'm buddy was kind of in a jam
but the point was is a I've never heard
of a battery boiling before anyway you
said that I said let me go out take a
look at this I just never heard that
before
and so when I looked at Skaar sure
enough you know like I'd been boiling
over and it turns out that if your do
ever have that what's going on is your
alternators putting out too much voltage
and it's causing your battery to boil so
if you ever run into that have your
alternator checked out if you go to a
lot auto parts store like we have a
little handheld unit that we hook up to
test the battery but it also checks out
like your starter and your alternator
and your battery all in the wallets in
the car and stuffings pretty handy but
so it's that I just passed that thing I
learned along to you so if you ever have
a boiling battery it's a good sign that
maybe your alternators
probably the voltage regulator went out
in it and it's not regulating voltage at
around 13 14 yeah around 13 maybe 14 is
kind of high but in this case he's
putting out 17 volts and and it's glad
we caught it cuz not you know if you'd
alternators putting out too much voltage
obviously is going to hurt your battery
and in this case it also blew out his
headlights and he replaced his
headlights and them as battery started
boiling so it's kind of a weird scenario
so just wanted to pass that tip along to
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