our resident rocket scientist/battery engineer sez: >I hate to throw a wrench in the gears of conventional wisdom (hah!) >but don't you think that maybe, just maaaybeee we don't need to be >so anal about battery vents with sealed recombinat SLI battery >technology readily available. available in group size 41? frank to: IN:ptimmerm@mashtun.JPL.NASA.GOV cc: IN:quattro@coimbra.ans.net