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Date:         Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:12:25 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Deep cycle batteries on sale at Canadian tire
Comments: To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <107481.48284.qm@web43133.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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I have to question this. Any outgassing from the battery will be very small amounts of hydrogen which are, as far as I know, nontoxic, and are so light that they will fall right up to the underside of the poptop, and so ephemeral that they will flow right through the canvas.

-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR

Malcolm Stebbins typed: > --- Martin Jagersand <jag@CS.UALBERTA.CA> wrote: > >> I was thinking to get a real deep cycle this time. > > I forgot to mention that I have been told that if the battery is IN the van (living space) one > might/should consider a sealed battery that will not 'out gas' into one's breating space. M > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting >


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