All that is meant by the enthusiastic blurt about 
the "new 31" is that some knuckehead van owner in 
the clutches of some insane obsession has 
actually has proven that the 31 can fit, thus 
clearing the way for more dopy van owners to 
follow suit and spread 31'dom forever wide and 
far in Vanagonland as a drivers' side underseat 
solution possibility..... "new 31" as being new 
to that location for these vans because it has been "discovered".

I don't think anyone who lacks the time to do the 
mod well should do it, nor do I think Group 31 
should go into anything but campers that are used 
far off the beaten track and are really trying to 
get the last ounce of amp hours out of their batteries.

That said, owners of Norcold and other 12V-only 
(non-propane) refrigerators are probably a perfect group to go to 31s.

In fact, I will look next to see if I can stuff a 
couple of 31s in front and above the steering 
rack area (where the spare time was) to see if I 
can support more use of the AC while we are 
sleeping out in the summertime with the engine off.

Nobody should install a group 31 battery under 
the drivers seat unless they absolutely have to 
have it, so I think the safest thing is to advise 
against the installation, and then if somebody 
does it anyway, you will know they really wanted it.

At 04:10 PM 5/2/2012, you wrote:
>� RE: Group 31 Under The Seat
>Got it.�  And see it.�  You refer, at the end of 
>your post , to "This new size 31".�  Is that to 
>be taken literally, that the BCI spec on the 
>dimensions of a Group 31 have been changed?�  Or 
>is it just that a vendor is putting a label of 
>Group 31 on a physically smaller battery?

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