JumboJet wrote:
iwon415 wrote:
Whats your point? I don't have as much problem with batteries being inside the rig as I do them being in a compartment with a piece of equipment that clearly states don't put me in a battery compartment...
The point would be, as approved by the RVIA, that the battery boxes with top and bottom hoses attached are compartmentalized separate from everything else in the area. Another point would be that undoubtedly the setup works as approved by the RVIA or we would be hearing different. Another point would be that this setup has been in place for several years.
If the installer does not follow installation instructions and cut new holes or do not make sure the battery boxes are sealed correctly, that is a problem. The manufacturers provide careful instructions and warning stickers to the installers. As an end user that has been provided a notebook full of product information for the components and appliances installed in my TC, a portion of the responsibility rests on me to make sure that the systems are installed correctly.
I take nothing for granted.
JumboJet, you made the following statements:
"undoubtedly the setup works as approved by the RVIA or we would be hearing different"and
"The manufacturers provide careful instructions and warning stickers to the installers"Yet you closed with:
"I take nothing for granted"Are you not taking RIVA approval and careful installer instructions for granted?
I'm not trying to pick a fight, I just want to point out that we all take many things for granted. We have to. We count on shared knowledge and shared labor. You know everything there is to know about your profession and I know everything there is about mine. You build one kind of product and make it safe, I build another kind of product and make it safe. We both depend on this basic contract.
While you are obviously very involved with the construction and operation of your RV, there are many consumers who are not. In my travels I have come across many people who seem clueless to basic physics and chemistry and have little knowledge or regard for the underpinnings of their rigs -- just the same way that the vast majority of consumers are clueless about their cars.
The fact is that the installers are doing a terrible job on the battery installation because it is extremely difficult to do a good job. There is documented evidence that the installers are hacking up the battery boxes. The gaping holes in the battery covers are not safe. My original post was to point that out and to question the safety of the venting system. Is it not prudent to point out serious safety issues so that the clueless are protected?
