Minimum setup required to run a DX-1600X?

[JesseJamesDallas]

The 4 batterys I have hooked up now are in the back of my work van...It's a Box-type van sorta like a U-Haul truck, and has vents in the back so any fumes can vent out and not create a problem...

Now on my Suburban, I built a battery box out of 1/2 inch wood that would hold 3 regular size car battery's. Then using 2" PVC pipes I made two vent pipes going out the floor of the Suburban, and had one elbow PVC pointing to the front of the truck, and another pointing to the back...The theory was that while traveling down the road fresh air would be forced into the box, then out the other pipe which faced to the back. Box had a lid on it with weather stripping so it was air tight...

The 2" PVC pipe is connected to a plastic electrical box connected to the side of the box and ran threw the floor.


Under the truck looking up you see where the pipes come out and one faces to the front of the truck, the other to the back.

(that bar running between the two PVC pipes is the tail pipe)

This worked very well, and I never did smell any battery fumes, plus the batterys are sealed inside the box which is also bolted to the floor, so in the event of the truck somehow ending up "upside-down" the battery's are going nowhere...

Downside is...you have to drill two 2" holes in the floor-board! (I used drill bits that are usually used for drilling door knob holes in wood...)

[craig_sez]

Seems to me i saw a vid on that 1600 amp...If memory is right,that amp seems to work best around 50% now i dont know if that applys to all amps or not..