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Tom Rowe
| | Posted on Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 04:13 pm: | 
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There was a thread about winches/battery locations and I mentioned that I wanted to put a Exide battery on it's side under the body.
Mark Albrecht, you said submerging it would short it. Yes, I do know water is a conductor, and it's likely that if I parked for an extended period in water, it may drain the battery. However, I don't understand how submerging the battery will short it, when submerging a winch and all it's connections doesn't short the battery. Also, I haven't read anywhere that it's been a problem on Camel Trophy runs when the vehivles were submerged. I don't think there is enough current at 12v to short the battery like that.
Maybe I'm all wet though (pun intended) so I'd certainly like to know if I am.
Cheers |
muskyman
| | Posted on Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 04:42 pm: |
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you are correct you can submerge batteries and they wont short but they may become contaminated even a optima has vents that will allow in water when dunked for long periods of time...i'm not sure but I'd guess the exide has similar vents.
I have had my optima under wate for a hour at a time and havent had any problems |
Mark Albrecht
| | Posted on Monday, November 04, 2002 - 01:53 pm: |
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I'll defer to the wisdom of others on the board. |
gordon sitts (Gsitts)
| | Posted on Monday, November 04, 2002 - 02:25 pm: |
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Depending upon Contaminate in the water the conductance of the water will cause the battery to slowly discharge. This is probably the lease of your worrys, battery contamination being probably the highest. My experience is when they are under the floor they are hard to get at and get all cruded up from the road.
My .02
Gordon |
Tom Rowe
| | Posted on Monday, November 04, 2002 - 02:51 pm: |
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Yah, in my original post I did allow for keeping it clean.
Thanks guys, thought I was losing my mind ;-) |
Paul T. Schram (Paulschram)
| | Posted on Monday, November 04, 2002 - 02:53 pm: |
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I think you guys are looking for trouble mounting a battery where it might not only come into contact with conductive water, but what about the odd piece of fence wire, or fence post, etc. that might get thrown up into the connections of the battery? Maybe even parts breaking off of your truck.
Battery explosions are irreversible reactions and are best avoided at all costs.
Paul |
Peter Carey (Pcarey)
| | Posted on Monday, November 04, 2002 - 03:11 pm: |
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You put caps on the terminals and duct tape them down. 
pwc |
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