Dead give-a-way for a dead battery ? (1 Viewer)

[aktundra]

We’ve had freakishly cold weather so far, even for Alaska. The battery was new this September. At some point in the last few weeks, I put the cruiser on a battery maintainer. But when I went to start it up recently, didn’t have enough juice to start. I popped the hood, and the negative terminal had a freakish amount of corrosion.

It’s my understanding that a properly charged battery will not freeze. Does corrosion only on the negative terminal indicate anything in particular, perhaps waited to long before putting a charger on it ?

 

[mudgudgeon]

Is the battery a sealed cell battery?

What you describe with the corosion, I'd be suspicious of your battery charger. Maybe it's overcharging and cooked a cell?
Overcharging can cause the electrolyte to break down causing it to off-gas too rapidly and potentially causing a leak around the terminal.
Was the battery hot while being charged?
Are the sides of the battery casing bulged outward?

Or the battery was faulty and you have a leak in the casing around the terminal because of a manufacturing fault.
If this was the only issue, battery should still take/hold a charge