[Public-List] Battery Tray?

[Philip Bartlett via Public-List]

I've been using a pair of sunlyte AGM 12-5000x batteries for the last 5 years. 200 AHrs capacity and no risk of spills. They had no problem starting the A4 or the new Beta 20. 

Philip

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> On Jul 21, 2017, at 9:22 AM, Jonathan Bresler via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you m, Mike. Shop vac sounds good.
> 
> Did a bit more poking around.  There is a hole towards the aft end of the
> forward battery tray.  Using a wooden dowel to measure the distance, it
> appears that there is just over 6" from the inside surface of the tray to
> the top of the bilge!  At the forward end of the forward battery tray, it's
> less than 1/2".  There's some space under those trays.
> 
> Have not ripped out the floor of the cabin. How are the trays attached
> to.....to what?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:56 AM Mike Lehman <mlehman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I would use a shop vac instead of a coat hanger...you can access under the
>> battery boxes from the bilge under the engine
>> 
>> On Jul 21, 2017 11:44 AM, "Jonathan Bresler via Public-List" <
>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>> As a follow on to the question regarding one 12v or two 6v batteries.
>>> There is a tray in which the batteries sit.  Appears that the tray is a
>>> bit
>>> raised above the floor of the bilge.  Tried to poke my finger in there
>>> between the tray and the bilge floor and between the side to side vertical
>>> divider between the forward and aft battery compartments and the battery
>>> tray.  No luck either way.  The battery tray has a hole, about 1"
>>> diameter,
>>> at the forward end, perhaps the aft end as well, that would allow the
>>> battery to drain into the bilge.
>>> 
>>> Is the bilge supposed to drain under/around the battery tray or through
>>> it?  Wondering if I need to get a wire coat hanger, unbend it, and try to
>>> fish out the material that has accumulated down there over the years.
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jonathan M Bresler
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>>> Annapolis/Eastport MD
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