Battery Venting
I have a truck camper. The battery box inside the unit is the standard box with vents in the lid to intake air and a vent on top of the lid with a tube going to the outside of the camper. My conce...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Se?or GORDON THREE,
Seeing how this thread FOCUSES on lead acid battery ventilation, trivializing the danger of lead poisoning is not a very wise choice of positions to take.
LEAD POISONING isn't like cyanide where you end up in a coffin with blue lips smelling like a box of almonds. Lead poisoning is subtle, and can lead to problems that defy rational analysis - like exacerbating heart rhythm problems, causing kidney and liver damage, ruining the level of immune system protection and too many other things to count.
This thread is not about how to prepare meringue for a pie, or how to shop for a tie, it is about handling lead acid batteries. So pardon me if I remark your trivialization borders on the incredible.
Mex, I have my six batts spread across the front cargo bay of my fiver, not in vented boxes, which I think is ventilated more or less.
In the same big compartment I have inverters, converters, and solar controllers. So far, none of those has been eaten by battery fumes (5 years for one of the inverters) I do not want to disregard safety, but I am just not having any "issues" so it is hard to believe I am in imminent danger.
