Seat battery  
Compartment    
 

The battery compartment is made exactly to fit the Hawker RGT batteries standing on the ledges in 
the back and the front of the compartment. With the RGTs the sheet steel plate does not really support 
anything. It is just protecting the batteries underside from impacts etc. As the NiCads are quite smaller
and doesn't fit the legdes additional supports had to be welded in before the batteries were glued in
place. Note the piece of garden hose connected to the water inlet of the first battery. The hose goes 
through a hole in the battery compartment and ends just behind the passenger seat. A similar 
hose, ending up under the car, drains excess water from the last battery. This allows the 
batteries to be refilled with water without having to dismantle the seats or the battery compartment.

When putting on the lid I detected that the NiCads are about 3 cm higher than the old RGTs. 
This resulted in a gap between the comparment walls and the lid which I fixed with some yards
of black duct-tape. As a more permanent solution I did later prolong the sides of the lid 
with some black plastic sheets which looks quite like the stuff used in the compartment itself. 
Updated: 2. February 2002