Battery Box Vent

[allen8106]

Hey gang,

Interested to hear how you are venting your battery box if your not using the OEM location for like a solar install.

[beemerphile1]

allen8106 wrote:

shastagary wrote:
a quick google search will bring up lots of vented battery boxes battery box vented
or you can make your own using a plastic storage tub and add a vent kit Hose Vent

Appreciate your feedback. My primary concern was do I need an entry and an exit or just a single vent tube. Looks like most of those only have a single vent.

Those vented battery boxes have a hole in the top and bottom. The one I had was two identical halves. I had to drill a hole in the floor where it sat and another hole in the wall for the hose/vent.

[SoundGuy]

Lantley wrote:
Sound Guy I have slowly gravitated to your way of thinking. AGM's have come down in price considerably from what I Remember. I plan to buy 2 AGM to replaces my flooded batteries.

For the longest time I felt the cost of AGMs was difficult to justify but I sort of got forced into it when my aged G27 flooded finally went to battery heaven and I needed to replace it. Problem was, I had in the interim installed a 1000 watt PSW inverter in the trailer's front pass through cargo compartment and as a result the shortest I could make the cables from it to the tongue mounted battery location was 6' so voltage drop under heavy load was noticeable. That's when I finally decided to make my next battery AGM so I could locate it beside the inverter and therefore shorten the cables to just 18" and minimize VD. Located as it is the battery is now difficult to reach but since it's a sealed AGM that needs no attention other than correct charging this concern became moot. I'd now not buy flooded as the advantages of AGM over flooded are now so clear to me, despite the cost.

[Lantley]

Sound Guy I have slowly gravitated to your way of thinking. AGM's have come down in price considerably from what I Remember. I plan to buy 2 AGM to replaces my flooded batteries.

[SoundGuy]

SoundGuy wrote:
You may consider your Crown flooded batteries to be a force du jour but there's no way I'd be locating any flooded battery so close to an inverter, enclosed in a vent box or not

Bobbo wrote:
The OP is not the one who has the inverter near the out-gassing batteries. I agree that putting an ignition source near batteries that out-gas hydrogen gas is poor planning.

Sorry, an assumption on my part since the OP said he planned to add 2 more Crown batts to his existing 2, install them in a "non OEM location", along with solar, which suggests to me he would be powering an inverter.

[packnrat]

no vent hose here, but also no electronic in the same area.
the vent hole is in the side of the rv. plenty of "venting" around the door. and floor is wide open. just enough steel to hold everything in place.
six 6 volt golf cart deep cycle.
any cover would have to be custom made. maybe if i have any free time.

[Bobbo]

SoundGuy wrote:
You may consider your Crown flooded batteries to be a force du jour but there's no way I'd be locating any flooded battery so close to an inverter, enclosed in a vent box or not

The OP is not the one who has the inverter near the out-gassing batteries. I agree that putting an ignition source near batteries that out-gas hydrogen gas is poor planning.

[SoundGuy]

allen8106 wrote:
Interested to hear how you are venting your battery box if your not using the OEM location for like a solar install.

SoundGuy wrote:
Switch to AGM batteries and there's no need for venting.

allen8106 wrote:
Sorry, not going to AGM. Have fairly new Crown wet cell and planning to add two more. So if you have any recommendations to my question I would be glad to read them.

No need to apologize, what you choose is entirely up to you, BUT it would have been germane to the discussion if you had mentioned this in your first post. You may consider your Crown flooded batteries to be a force du jour but there's no way I'd be locating any flooded battery so close to an inverter, enclosed in a vent box or not, certainly not now when batteries that require no venting are so readily available. I had a similar situation in my own trailer so when I replaced the aging tongue mounted flooded battery I chose an AGM and mounted it in the front pass through cargo compartment so the cable runs to the inverter would be no more than 18". No vent box required, no concern over having the battery mounted so close to the inverter, no need for maintaining fluid levels, minimal voltage drop under heavy inverter load. Even so-called "premium" batteries like your flooded Crowns are old technology that are now easily replaced with better products like AGM and eventually lithium once the price becomes more reasonable.

[allen8106]

shastagary wrote:
a quick google search will bring up lots of vented battery boxes battery box vented
or you can make your own using a plastic storage tub and add a vent kit Hose Vent

Appreciate your feedback. My primary concern was do I need an entry and an exit or just a single vent tube. Looks like most of those only have a single vent.

[shastagary]

a quick google search will bring up lots of vented battery boxes battery box vented
or you can make your own using a plastic storage tub and add a vent kit Hose Vent

[C_B_]

Took out single 12V. Put in 2 6V and inverter.




Made vented cover.





C.B.

[allen8106]

SoundGuy wrote:

allen8106 wrote:
Interested to hear how you are venting your battery box if your not using the OEM location for like a solar install.

Switch to AGM batteries and there's no need for venting.

Sorry, not going to AGM. Have fairly new Crown wet cell and planning to add two more. So if you have any recommendations to my question I would be glad to read them.

[BarabooBob]

My class C had a hose out the top of the battery box that went to a vent on the side of the MH.

[SoundGuy]

allen8106 wrote:
Interested to hear how you are venting your battery box if your not using the OEM location for like a solar install.

Switch to AGM batteries and there's no need for venting.