[alberg30] Battery Boxes - Why?

[alberg30]

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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