Friday, Jan 03, 2014 at 17:19
Yeh those marine battery boxes mostly come with a fabric strap with plastic buckles...
that is all fine and beaut when they are straped into the transom of a tinnie...um maybe.
but boats dont stop real fast and if they roll over, it generally does not happen at 80pluss Kmh on a hard surface.....if ya in a boat and it does ..
well getting ya head caved in by a flying battery spewing acid is the least of ya troubles.
Damn straight the whole caravan/camper/RV industry and the public needs A ginormous shake up.
Perhaps then we would not have batteries installed under beds without ventilation and gass &
fuel carried in either impact exposed or enclosed
places.
As it stands..you are lucky if ya camper was migged up by someone with a formal welding qualification and it was wired by someone who had a vague ide of the electrical safety regs.
From what I see, a great many products and installations where not done by those who understood either the safety issues nor the regfulations.
remember folks, a batteey is a plastic box full of lead and acid, they do fail, the cases do split and they do generate explosive gasses.....all of them.....AND there is no such thing as a completely sealed battery.
cheers
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