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Putting a gel battery power wheelchair on its side
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Putting a gel battery power wheelchair on its side
Hi,
When I was using lead acid batteries in my power wheelchair (ages ago!), you couldn’t put the wheelchair on its side because the battery acid would leak out.
I now use gel batteries.
Sometimes when flying on a smaller plane I will be asked if they can put my wheelchair on its side to fit it in the storage area of the plane. I always resist this and recline the seat, remove footrests and headrests etc.
But, I was wondering, is it ok to put gel batteries on their side? Could the gel leak out?
(Obviously, chairs aren’t designed to bear weight on the armrests etc… but mostly concerned about batteries.)