Battery Box Venting Question
What is the best way to vent a battery box? The homemade wood box is in my front 5th wheel storage compartment (just below the hitch). I was going to vent it out to a new vent hole on the passenger ...
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BFL13 wrote:
You are supposed to have vented boxes but I was too lazy and hoped the cargo bay was vented enough. So I have batteries up front not even in boxes. I keep waiting for the fumes to destroy my inverters parked nearby, but after five years the inverters still work.
As the man said after falling off a 20 storey building, when passing the 10th floor, "So far so good."
Its not the "fall" that kills..
It IS the sudden STOP at the end that KILLS :E :B
My battery "box" is a cargo bay which I lined with FRP (fiberglass reinforced paneling) top bottom and all sides which you can find at Home Depot or Lowes. Ran a bead of caulk around the seams to seal the compartment from the living space.
The outside door is a re-purposed refrigerator vent/access door which has louvers (This WAS the door for the now gone RV fridge which was replaced with a residential fridge).
Compartment is big enough for 4 6volt GC batts but I am only carrying 2. Batteries sit in a heavy duty Rubbermaid plastic tote.
Those "marine" type boxes do look like the cats meow for inside batteries, looks nice and should function well..
