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Nov 17, 2014

Toyhauler battery configurations (bumper pull)

I’m looking for options for configuring the batteries on my bumper-pull trailer. I have four 6v batteries. In the past I've had two on the tongue and two that I keep in a tote and schlepp out with me and connect to the house batteries once we get to camp.

I’m at an interesting crossroads because:

1. The two batteries on my tongue (and the nice marine case) were stolen, so my trailer tongue is a blank canvas, so to speak.

2. I burned the hell out of my finger on our last trip out when my wedding ring touched the diamond plate on the front of the trailer and completed the circuit between the trailer and the wrench I was turning.

So my tasks now are to find a new good box to house the two batteries on the tongue between the front wall of the trailer and the LP tanks and to devise a cleaner connection so my wiring isn’t such a rat’s nest.

I thought I’d throw that out to the brain trust here:

1. What boxes can you all recommend for two tall batteries end to end on the tongue?

2. What kind of junction terminals can you recommend? I would like to end up with the two batteries connected to each other in series, all the coach wiring going into a junction, the two batteries on the tongue connected to their own terminals on the block, and the other two batteries in the stand-alone tote similarly connecting to their own terminals on the block. Ideally connecting and disconnecting the extra set of batteries wouldn't ever interfere with the coach wiring connections or the other battery connections and nothing would come loose when I hook/unhook the second set.

Suggestions?

Oh and the two lessons I learned: (1) Gold is very conductive and (2) I smell delicious when I’m searing at high temps.

17 Replies

  • Dakota98 wrote:
    TORKLIFT


    Yikes. Am I looking at that right? Is that a $500 box to house $320 worth of batteries?

    Those boxes are gorgeous, but I think that's too rich for my blood. Plus are they insulated inside or is it diamond plate inside and out? I'm a little shy about sticking my hand back in there with a wrench when I nearly lost a finger in a larger enclosure than that. Or am I missing something?

    That box sure would look nice on the tongue though. I couldn't use the solar option, because my LP tanks cast a shadow over my batteries.
  • I have a dish on the headboard of the bed, ring goes in when I open the door, comes out when I am leaving for the weekend. I know 2 people with 9 fingers because their wedding ring caught something.

    I was thinking something more like this for batteries:
    Truck Box


    Or most any "pickup bed box" would work, as long as you could fit it in there.
  • big buford wrote:
    Best line of the weekend, I'm gona need somebody that hasn't been drinking to help me cut this ring off :B


    Yep. Thank God Mark was only half a beer into the evening when he helped me out. I think the beer steadied his nerves.
  • Best line of the weekend, I'm gona need somebody that hasn't been drinking to help me cut this ring off :B
  • Dakota98 wrote:
    TORKLIFT

    X2

    You can even get a 4-battery box with a trickle/maintainer solar panel on top. I will have one soon for my enclosed trailer and it will be perfect because it is stored where there are no power hookups.