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Gary
How much do people have their flooded battery compartments vented? My boat was originally designed with the battery compartment vented with some holes into the engine compartment. I have added three bigger batteries into a space next to the existing battery compartment and there are holes in the board between theses compartments thus ultimately venting the new compartment into the engine space via the previous compartmet.I'm trying to figure out how much effort I need to put into venting this compartment. The boat is 15 years old and never blew up with the existing arrangement. With the extra batteries though I'm wondering if I need more "aggressive" venting? I was thinkig of installing a blower or a small computer fan to actively vent the batteries into the engine compartment. Then I was wondering if that would not be enough and if maybe I should connect a specific vent hose to the compartment with or without a fan to vent directly outside?Am I overthinking all this?And while I'm on the subject...it seems like motoring would be the main time that hydrogen could be produced. Attached to shore power the charger will drop off as the batteries reach capacit, but motoring the alternator keeps charging at the max amps. This seems like maybe the most important time to have the compartment vented. Does this make sense?Like I said, maybe I'm overthinking this, but I don't want to blow myself up!!