T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Use of Battery Boxes with agm's, gel or other sealed batteries

Friday, July 2, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] Use of Battery Boxes with agm's, gel or other sealed batteries

Dave:

I did not enclose my 8A4D AGM batteries in an enclosed box because the manufacturer did not recommend it for AGMs. If I were using flooded batteries I definitely would have them in an enclosed box though. For my installation I made a platform over the existing engine stringers put the batteries on Dri Deck patches to help keep them from slipping (and also provides ventilation underneath the batteries) and also secured them with battery straps and wood blocks. You can see what I did in the photos in the following posts:

http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2009/03/going-electric-part-14-before-and-after.html

http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2009/04/going-electric-part-15-securing-battery.html

http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2009/04/going-electric-part-17-installing.html

Capt. Mike

http://biankablog.blogspot.com

--- On Thu, 7/1/10, davidhughes_casaba <davidhughes_casaba@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: davidhughes_casaba <davidhughes_casaba@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Electric Boats] Use of Battery Boxes with agm's, gel or other sealed batteries
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 6:48 PM

I would be interested to hear what various group members have done with regard to utilizing or not battery boxes with battery types such as AGMs which reportably do not need one and can be mounted on their side. Does anyone forgo them as a result of this characteristic or do people still use battery boxes just because or for other reasons (please note reason)?

Thanks
Dave