{"id":1143,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:07:30","slug":"gel-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/gel-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Gel Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> One of my batteries won&#8217;t hold a charge too long because either something is draining off some current and\/or it got over charged when I was once having alternator problems. Any ideas? How does one test gel batteries? Thanks in advance, Marvin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi Marvin: To see if you have a short somewhere just remove the power cables and see if there&#8217;s a difference. Next, make sure the tops of the batteries are clean (dirty tops will actually cause shorts between the terminals). Finally, batteries usually die from internal shorts between their plates. If the battery gas been overcharged that could cause the plates to warp and short. Regards&#8211;Steve <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my batteries won&#8217;t hold a charge too long because either something is draining off some current and\/or it <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/gel-batteries\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-systems-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36068,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/36068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}