Battery Maintenance - Mercedes-Benz Conecto Manual

Practical advice

Battery maintenance

amounts of clean water. Seek medical
attention if necessary.
(5) - Wear safety goggles.
(6) - Keep children away.
Danger.
Naked flames and smoking are strictly
forbidden whenever work is being carried
out on the vehicle batteries. Avoid the
creation of sparks. Wear safety goggles.
Keep children away. There is a risk of
acid burns. The Operating Instructions
must be observed. There may be a risk
of explosion.
Danger.
All cells of lead-acid batteries must be fit-
ted with special caps that are interlinked
by vent hoses, thereby allowing any gases
produced to be directed into the open air.
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Danger.
If the bus is equipped with lead-acid bat-
teries, it is not permitted to replace these
with gel batteries. The opposite is also
true.
Battery maintenance
Do not clean the batteries without
the cell caps screwed in. Do not use
petrol, benzene, kerosene or similar
for cleaning.
Ventilation bores in the cell caps
must be open, i.e. the hoses in the
cell ventilation must not be blocked.
Lightly grease the terminal clamps
with acid-proof grease, especially the
underside.
Check the securing screws for the
terminal clamps and the screw secur-
ing the negative cable to the chassis
regularly for firm seating.
Recharge any batteries not in use
once per month or trickle charge
them at 0.06 A. Special chargers that
have an appropriate charge char-
acteristic (IU, IUOU or WUOU) are
required for charging gel batteries.