Fw: [alberg30] Battery Boxes - Why?

[Guy Lalonde]

From: Guy Lalonde <lalondegc at videotron.ca>

Joe,

my 2nd compartment is also sloped. Maybe put one battery in the rearmost
compartment and the other one in the second compartment. Right now I have 2
in the rearmost, they are a little larger than a standard car battery. I
think their size is Group 27. They are in battery boxes but I can't put the
lid on the rearmost battery because the pan has a slight step so it sits a
bit higher. Eventually I may move one to the other compartment.

Guy
Cyrena #466

----- Original Message -----
From: alberg30 <alberg30 at interactive.net>
To: <alberg30 at onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [alberg30] Battery Boxes - Why?


> From: "alberg30" <alberg30 at interactive.net>
>
> About these batteries:
>
> My two batteries are in the  in the floor just forward of the engine
> compartment, in the same area of the bilge (actually liner pan) where the
> raw water intake valve is. The liner pan sits about 6 inches above the
> actual bilge bottom. The batteries are strapped down to the liner pan. I
> have to replace/upgrade my batteries and need more room. But where to put
> them?
>
> -Someone said "2nd most forward bilge compartment."
> Are we talking about the same place?
>
> My compartment is a tight fit, and the batteries need to be a certain
> physical size to fit there. There's a limit to their height and length if
> you're gonna fit two.
>
> On newer boats, in the next most forward bilge compartment, isn't the
liner
> pan sloped? How do you put batteries there? Are the older boats different?
>
> Maybe I missed something.
>
> Joe #499
> "One Less Traveled"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Kirk <kirk at neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> To: <alberg30 at onelist.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 12:31 AM
> Subject: [alberg30] Battery Boxes - Why?
>
>
> > From: Robert Kirk <kirk at neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> >
> > At 10:29 AM 09-02-00 -0500, Michael Grosh wrote:
> >
> > >I can fit two large batteries in the 2nd most forward bilge
compartment-I
> > >make an attempt to keep weight forward on the Alberg-it takes some
> > >maneuvering to get them through the hatch, but plenty of room once in.
I
> use
> > >nylon webbing screwed to the bottom of the compartment(battery sitting
on
> > >the webbing) On my boat the bottom (ceiling?) appears to be glassed
over
> > >plywood.  Backpacking equipment uses a new (for me) type of plastic
> buckle;
> > >snap release, and is adjustable. That would be a big improvement over
the
> > >nasty, rusted metal buckle I am now using. I have given up on using
> battery
> > >boxes down there,I have found the boxes collect more stuff (including,
on
> > >occasion, bilge water) to keep next to the battery then just having
them
> > >accessible as is.
> >
> > That sounds exactly my setup: Batteries in plastic boxes, held fast with
> > webbing and buckles.  You make me think - why the  boxes in the first
> > place?  It seems if you can hold the battery down securely, by itself,
> > there is no need for a box.  My car battery isn't in a box, why should
my
> > boat's?
> >
> > Keep dirt out? Contain electrolyte spills? Pretty weak, I think. Is
there
> > something I'm forgetting?  I think I'll follow Michael's lead and toss
> them.
> >
> > While I'm at it, I need to fasten the straps more securely than the wood
> > screw thru the webbing into the fiberglass floor. It doesn't slide, but
> > would never handle a knockdown. But then, it probably isn't going
anyplace
> > in the battery compartment, anyway.
> >
> > Bob Kirk
> > Isobar #181
> >
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