battery box fan [RE-wrenches]

[Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar]

My opinion is that active battery box venting is not needed.  A passive vent
to the outside if to get rid of the charging smell is really all that's
necessary.  Let's face it if the hydrogen was a problem then a lot more
systems would have had some sort of explosion.

I think Jeffery's example sums it up.  I spend a lot of time cleaning up
older systems that I didn't install.  Some of them have as many a 20 L-16's
in the same room as gas water heater.  I have never heard of a problem with
a Hydrogen.  Thinking back to college chemistry Hydrogen is the hardest atom
to contain and naturally repels itself which means it is going to get away
and doesn't accumulate easily.

Travis Creswell
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>From: "Bob Ellison, Alternative Energy Systems" <ellison at gisco.net>
>To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
>Subject: RE: battery box fan [RE-wrenches]
>Date: Mon, Nov 27, 2000, 3:35 AM
>

>I do it this way because the only battery vent fan that is available seems
>overpriced and flimsy. If the general opinion is that they are not needed, I
>will stop putting them in, but it seems like cheap insurance and things
>smell better around here when equalizing!

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