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Originally Posted by z12358
Thx everyone for the advice.
Jim, I'm really worried about the fumes in ANY closed space. I left the battery (on a thick cardboard) hooked to the (Schumacher) charger in a closed room (just as a test) and I could smell the fumes after only 30 minutes. So I unhooked it. I think it would be the same in the basement which is not ventilated and no one really goes there for long periods of time. There, there's the extra issue of the oil furnace being in the same space which doesn't make me comfortable at all -- especially since we only spend weekends in that house, so I would never think of leaving it down there unattended. I assume these fumes do present a fire hazard, right?
I wonder, where do these fumes go when the battery is charged/maintained in a car that's stored/parked in a garage for the winter, as the Porsche manual recommends? The garage is not really "ventilated", is it? I bet I would smell fumes even there.
Never thought this would be such an issue.
Z.
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I have to confess that I have charged dozens of Porsche batteries in my garage and have never smelled fumes. This is perplexing to me!