battery episode

Since I really don’t have anything else to post these days as we are just trying to survive the heat.  I did promise to post about this and so here it is.

One morning I was awaken by a horrible smell, it smelt like rotten eggs.  Of course our first thought was the black tank needed dumped and we had been having some hot temps.  So hubby got up and emptied the tanks and the smell seem to disappear. 

Later that night before we went to bed we smelt a little bit of the smell again.  We knew the tanks had been emptied.  It seem to go away and we went to bed.  Around 2 am i was awakened by a beeping noise our carbon dioxide detector going off in the kitchen. The smell of rotten eggs.

I got hubby awake and we instantly opened up the doors, vents and turned on all the exhaust fans, the smell was overwhelming.  Our grand daughter Hailey was on the couch and so I woke her up to make sure she was okay. 
We spent over 2 hours checking everything we could that would cause a smell, finally we shut off the refrigerator, freezer and any electrical appliance we had.  The smell continued to get worse and finally hubby went outside to check the battery.  Boom there it was bubbling out fumes like crazy. 

Hubby had to get out his leather gloves, unhook and remove the battery away from the camper.  Once he did that the smell began to leave.  Finally around 4 am we were able to go back to bed.  We had to replace our battery the next day.
 
I have to say that I am so glad that we had good batteries in our detectors so that they worked.  I would hate think what could of happened had they not.