Getting to know our new to us 2007 Allegro Bus 40 QSP. Last compartment on passenger side houses the inverter, electrical connections/fuses and a couple high pressure hydraulic lines run through there. Today one of the hydraulic fittings developed a small leak spreading fluid around the small compartment. Hydraulic fluid is not as flammable as fuel, but what were they thinking running those lines through that compartment?
TRAILERKING said
09:10 PM Mar 29, 2015
Well you shouldn't have any corrosion problems with the electrical in that compartment...........
TRAILERKING said
11:31 PM Apr 9, 2015
One thing I just found kind of a strange engineering design. A friend of mine just bought a very nice '94 Beaver 40' motorhome. The batteries are all in the same bay as the onboard propane tank. They are in a slide-out tray directly above the propane tank. Not sure why they'd put all that electrical components in with the propane??
BiggarView said
06:51 AM Apr 10, 2015
TRAILERKING wrote:
One thing I just found kind of a strange engineering design. A friend of mine just bought a very nice '94 Beaver 40' motorhome. The batteries are all in the same bay as the onboard propane tank. They are in a slide-out tray directly above the propane tank. Not sure why they'd put all that electrical components in with the propane??
Well propane is heavier than air, and the compartment should be vented or open somehow to allow air in there. So short of a catastrophic failure (and then all bets are off) I don't think the fuel air mixture would get to a dangerous level. Just sayin'.
Brian
TRAILERKING said
07:57 AM Apr 10, 2015
There are better places to split it up anyway. Because of shoe-horning the batteries into the same propane bay resulted in such a small propane tank. It's about half the size of the one in my motorhome. A big issue is any significant gassing of the batteries will lead to corrosion issues.......Especially where you don't want with a propane system.
Getting to know our new to us 2007 Allegro Bus 40 QSP. Last compartment on passenger side houses the inverter, electrical connections/fuses and a couple high pressure hydraulic lines run through there. Today one of the hydraulic fittings developed a small leak spreading fluid around the small compartment. Hydraulic fluid is not as flammable as fuel, but what were they thinking running those lines through that compartment?
Well propane is heavier than air, and the compartment should be vented or open somehow to allow air in there. So short of a catastrophic failure (and then all bets are off) I don't think the fuel air mixture would get to a dangerous level. Just sayin'.
Brian