Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 18:10:18 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Another Monster Battery Option For Stock Locations
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I say cut the floor of the compartment out and move the AC hoses lower if
needed. Then add a support and let the battery rest on the chassis rail.
Close and seal the top of the compartment and now the battery is vented to
the outside. Or just weld a band around the bottom to reconnect the floor
panel you cut out. This should drop the battery down almost an inch.
Those little Honda generators just keep looking better!
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Derek Drew
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 5:30 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Another Monster Battery Option For Stock Locations
All that is meant by the enthusiastic blurt about the "new 31" is that some
knuckehead van owner in the clutches of some insane obsession has actually
has proven that the 31 can fit, thus clearing the way for more dopy van
owners to follow suit and spread 31'dom forever wide and far in Vanagonland
as a drivers' side underseat solution possibility..... "new 31" as being new
to that location for these vans because it has been "discovered".
I don't think anyone who lacks the time to do the mod well should do it, nor
do I think Group 31 should go into anything but campers that are used far
off the beaten track and are really trying to get the last ounce of amp
hours out of their batteries.
That said, owners of Norcold and other 12V-only
(non-propane) refrigerators are probably a perfect group to go to 31s.
In fact, I will look next to see if I can stuff a couple of 31s in front and
above the steering rack area (where the spare time was) to see if I can
support more use of the AC while we are sleeping out in the summertime with
the engine off.
Nobody should install a group 31 battery under the drivers seat unless they
absolutely have to have it, so I think the safest thing is to advise against
the installation, and then if somebody does it anyway, you will know they
really wanted it.
At 04:10 PM 5/2/2012, you wrote:
>Â RE: Group 31 Under The Seat
>Got it. And see it. You refer, at the end of your post , to "This
>new size 31". Is that to be taken literally, that the BCI spec on the
>dimensions of a Group 31 have been changed? Or is it just that a
>vendor is putting a label of Group 31 on a physically smaller battery?
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