Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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Dave Pete wrote:
Screwtape, ticki2 on this site has lots of good input and helped inform me recently about not having the batteries and converter in the same compartment due to explosive fumes. Even AGMs could create that in certain overcharge conditions.
My solution was to relocate the batteries to a different compartment (I'm doing a huge remod). But in your case with more height available, you might be able to solve the situation with three large vented battery cases (isolates from the converter) and direct vent them out to an exterior.
Here's an example. Large Box
I've given this matter a bit of consideration and those boxes aren't a bad idea. As it is ASHRAE and NFPA-111 recommend a minimum of two air changes per hour to remove gases generated by vented batteries during charging. When I'm charging there is a fan going in the compartment that meets this need. When in a state of discharge there is little to no gas coming off the battery. I'm pretty comfortable with this setup as it is.
