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Show FUNCTION OF STORAGE BATTER! EXPLAINED In touring the storage battery usually plavs such a modest part that it is often entirely forgotten. The very fact that it is comparatively little used, however, constitutes con-stitutes a .reason for examining It occasionally. oc-casionally. The following explanation and suggestions sugges-tions are offered by E. E. Darling of the Prest-O-Lite Battery Service station. "Most-modern automobiles are equipped with generators which are intended to recharge re-charge the storage battery in proportion to the current consumed by the starter and lights under ordinary driving conditions, condi-tions, "In long, cross-country driving the generator gen-erator operates under abnormal conditions condi-tions that is. it charges the battery faster than the current is consumed. Continued Con-tinued touring day after day, with little use of the starter and lights, is apt to result in overcharging the battery, which is accompanied by overheating. "Overheating causes the battery solution solu-tion to evaporate rapidly. It is, therefore, there-fore, advisable to examine the battery every few days, if the touring is continued, con-tinued, and add distilled water as needed to keep the solution well over the battery plates. This attention is absolutely as- isential, as allowing the plates to become exposed, due to evaporation of t lie solution, solu-tion, is bound to seriously injure the battery. |