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Vibration / bouncing pre built 100ah battery ampere time fiberglass trailer installation.

OneStudPuppy

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So new controller is supposed to be here tomorrow, but something I keep thinking about is in a mobile fiberglass trailer towing and rough roads and highways bouncing.
If you look at scamp, casita, trail mite (13 ft actual egg about 10 feet) etx. These things are maybe 1000 lbs. when I brought my trailer home catching some pot holes etc on freeways. The trailer has a pretty strong tendency to bounce. There was enough bounce to knock curtains down.
So I am trying to brainstorm the mounting I will go with on this shelf and wonder if I should add some dense foam or something under it before I secure it to the shelf?
Better to disconnect and carry in pickup until at camp? I’d like to figure some way to minimize potential shocks to the battery to not break loose any connections internally etc.
Open for any input and ideas suggestions etc.
Pic below of where more than likely the battery will be mounted, controller will be different that one in the picture was a factory dud and I’m switching to a rover for ppt and lost any faith at all in the wander series.
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I'd strap it down and make sure the floor of the cabinet it connected to the frame somewhere so the added weight doesn't pull the cabinet off of the floor in a hard bounce.
Hopefully your pack is using actual cells and not just pouches taped together.
 
I built a wood box for mine. It compressed the cells when I put the end on. I could turn it upside down and cells will not come out.
 

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My RV trailer has a GVWR of 11K lbs. It's been down some very rough roads. Bad enough that I was concerned the trailer would tip over. I do have shocks, so that helps some. There are aftermarket kits to add shocks.

My system has been in place for almost two years now. That last time I checked the cell terminals, every one of them except one were perfectly tight. The outlier was good enough, but I was able to put an 1/8 turn on the screw. My two DIY 280 Ah batteries are both bolted to a shelf which is in turn bolted to the trailer's frame.

Make sure every cable lug is tight and every cable is secure. Anything that can bounce/sway can come undone.
 
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