recumbent615
Founding MA Chapter Leader-retired
I've been down in Hershey since Thursday - And for the past two days I've been smelling what I thought was sewer gas, so today I went down to the office and asked them what was up. They said they had had a few complaints from my area of the CG so they sent someone up to look to see if any one was discharging gray water ...
When then started to focus on my site - the guy said it smelled like propane so I immediately shut off my DS tank and them stated to duck under the Pin Box aream to shut off the ODS tank when I Saw Steam, YES STEAM coming out of the Battery Vent!! My Battery was COOKING ( Boiling and off gassing ). I immediately switched the Battery out of the system - and took the cover off - it was hotter than **** ( the cover ) and there was steam coming out of the Battery!! I disconnected the Battery and pulled it out of the RIG!
What could Cause a Battery to Fail like that? I have had batteries fail but never BOIL!!
I have replaced the Battery with another 12V Deep Cycle - Could something in my RIG have caused the Battery to fail? Keep in mind that this battery has not been holding a charge well for quite some time. and I was all set to replace with 4 6V batteries and that is still the plan.
Kevin
When then started to focus on my site - the guy said it smelled like propane so I immediately shut off my DS tank and them stated to duck under the Pin Box aream to shut off the ODS tank when I Saw Steam, YES STEAM coming out of the Battery Vent!! My Battery was COOKING ( Boiling and off gassing ). I immediately switched the Battery out of the system - and took the cover off - it was hotter than **** ( the cover ) and there was steam coming out of the Battery!! I disconnected the Battery and pulled it out of the RIG!
What could Cause a Battery to Fail like that? I have had batteries fail but never BOIL!!
I have replaced the Battery with another 12V Deep Cycle - Could something in my RIG have caused the Battery to fail? Keep in mind that this battery has not been holding a charge well for quite some time. and I was all set to replace with 4 6V batteries and that is still the plan.
Kevin