I am going to mount a aluminum tool/truck box on the tongue to hold 4 six volt golt gart batteries.OI am interested in what box others have used, and their mounting methods.So for those of you that have done this.. What did you do?

Huntindog wrote:I am going to mount a aluminum tool/truck box on the tongue to hold 4 six volt golt gart batteries.OI am interested in what box others have used, and their mounting methods.So for those of you that have done this.. What did you do?Two things are very good practices you should do, use a good quality battery compartment paint and coat the interior of the Aluminum box. second provide a vent for the hydrogen gas to get out of the box.Your 4, 6 volt batteries will hold a lot of energy, we have 4 6 volt batteries in our battery pack for the coach. they are wired two in series with two in series, connected in parallel to provide 12 volts to the coach.

Can't answer your question directly but I have thought about same thing. At least one person on here has them on tongue and their tongue weight is around 1200 pounds. On my set up that would mean I had have to replace my hitch for the added tongue weight. Lots of examples here. Maybe some ideas for you?https://www.google.com/search?q=batteries+on+tongue+%26+rv&biw=1188&bih=585&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAqorEusbKAhVMxGMKHfVdDVcQ_AUICCgDBe Careful about adding dense weight or stress depending on what you have.

You can read all about the box I fabricated for my trailer here:www.rvbprecision.comIt's in the solar install article

I added a Delta Box. This model is made for the A frame of a trailer.I added 3 additional deep cycle batteries which gave a total of 4. I stayed with 12 volt because my original battery was brand new and did not want to just throw it away. Plus I bought my deep cycle batteries at Costco and the 12's had a two year warranty and the 6' had one year.. If I was to replace them later I would have went with 6's. It would be about 340ah vs 440ah.Note: After taking this photo I found out that I had it wired wrong. I moved the negative battery cable to the other end of the battery bank for more even use. You want to think of the bank as one big battery.I vented the back and bottom of the boxI made a shelf that sits above the batteries that I used for storage of power cables, water hoses and tow bars...You want to consider how much weight your adding to the tongue. My trailer was a heavy toy hauler and the tongue was designed to hold a generator where I put the battery box.

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Tom_Barb
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Jan 26, 2016
Huntindog wrote:
I am going to mount a aluminum tool/truck box on the tongue to hold 4 six volt golt gart batteries.

OI am interested in what box others have used, and their mounting methods.

So for those of you that have done this.. What did you do?

Two things are very good practices you should do, use a good quality battery compartment paint and coat the interior of the Aluminum box. second provide a vent for the hydrogen gas to get out of the box.

Your 4, 6 volt batteries will hold a lot of energy, we have 4 6 volt batteries in our battery pack for the coach. they are wired two in series with two in series, connected in parallel to provide 12 volts to the coach.

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