Battery comparments for hunter 26

[Thomas Holland]

Can you use comparment in deck for gas tank and a battery for the motor. Hunter 26 batteries are hard to get to.

 

[Dennis W.]

An Explosive Idea

The gas tank should be stored in a campartment that is vented overboard and not in a compartment with a spark producing piece of equipment ie: your battery. It's an explosive recipe.

Dennis W.
S/V FullSailed

 

[Benny]

Is this a trick question?

Gas fumes are explosive, heavier than air and will settle at the bottom of a sealed compartment. Include a battery in the compartment and a connector can produce the spark to set off the explosive gases.

 

[Crazy Dave Condom]

in other words, use common sense

When ever I see questions like this, I wonder unless you truely do not know. Gas and batteries are a bad mix and if you love your wife and children, do not even consider this.

 

[Michael]

Yes

Yes, don't put the battery in the gas compartment.

However, I think what Thomas was really asking is -- is there a better place to put the battery than where Hunter puts it. He is certainly correct that it isn't a great place for it.

I just replaced my battery on Sunday, and it is a pain.

 

[Vern]

Time for an energy anecdote

Yesterday as I was filling the gas tank on my H260, I thought of this very same explosive subject. I looked over to the adjacent slip to make sure they weren't grilling.

40 years ago as a dumb kid working for the railroad, I had to fill an alcohol heater in the confined end bunker of a refrigerated freight car. Standard procedure was to extinguish the flame before doing so. I had done this procedure many times but this particular time, I didn't extinguish the heater.

The heater flashed in my face, singeing my eyebrows and hair. I can't explain why I wasn't blinded or even burned.

I do know this: If I had been filling a gasoline heater, I would have blown up the whole end of the freight car, including me. At that moment, I learned how little energy there is in alcohol.

 

[George]

Battery Again

Hope you have lots of life insurance -- your family needs you.


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