Does anyone know about ARK Portable battery boxes and where to buy them

[flyingwil]

hey guys....n00b on this and starting to do research..found this thread on a search.

Im considering using this arkpak as my dual battery set up to power my fridge because of versatility for other things....is there a way to plug this into the vehicle, so it charges off the alternator while driving, but then not drain the main vehicle battery once it is shut off?

thnx!

There is 2 different ways to do this, both will need to be a wired in as "keyed hot" to not drain down your main battery:

1. Cigarette lighter
2. Anderson Plug

We recently installed one at our shop in a Honda CRV, depending on your load you may want to consider option #2 with running a fridge on your set up.

 

[KiwiKurt]

yeah....i guess id either need to run the cable from the front of the vehicle to where the arcpak is or find a way to have my rear 12v switch off when the vehicle goes off....

 

[KiwiKurt]

There is 2 different ways to do this, both will need to be a wired in as "keyed hot" to not drain down your main battery:

1. Cigarette lighter
2. Anderson Plug

We recently installed one at our shop in a Honda CRV, depending on your load you may want to consider option #2 with running a fridge on your set up.

Thanks. Can you explain the anderson plug a little? I'm not familiar with it.


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[Overland_Brandon]

KiwiKurt,

Check out post number 353 of this thread.

 

[KiwiKurt]

rgr. thanks.

 

[Brett From Ark]

What is everyone's experience with the float voltage on the Arkpak? Mine usually hovers between 13.1 and 13.2, but I've seen it as high as 13.3 and now is currently sitting at 12.9 which seems too low for an AGM battery. Do you think this will keep the battery in proper shape? For what it's worth, I don't ever discharge the battery below 12.2v (it's a diehard platinum marine 31m).

Float cycle:

Hi Pdxfrogdog

sorry for the really long delay in coming back to about the great question you have raised in relation to the float voltage, the specific reason this can occur is approx every 15 mins the battery will go into a testing cycle (it will be displayed in bottom left hand corner of LCD) it is during this time that the charging process is stopped while the smart charger puts the battery under a test, during this test the battery can drop 0.1 to 0.2 volts once the testing cycle is finished and reverts back to a float cycle the voltage should climb slowly back up to 13.0 to 13.2 volts

if you have any more questions please ask.

Regards

Brett from Ark

 

[Brett From Ark]

Hi Guys

hope all is going well it is starting to warm up down here in OZ so getting excited, means more camping and outdoors adventures.

I know i have mentioned this a few times already but its really important that you guys know i am so proud of the way everyone has contributed to this thread and also offering help and advice to others when it has been needed a BIG THANK YOU

and please if you have a question best to ask it so that way you get the correct answer.

Best regards

Brett from Ark

 

[Corey]

Thanks Brett for all the help you have provided here in this thread about your product.

Warming up you say
Winter is coming here, time to start dreaming up next summers vacation plans.

 

[ebg18t]

Has anyone used the $175 PowerPak battery box? I emailed Brett with questions, but haven't heard back.

I just want to run my Engel MT40 fridge and charge the phones with the smaller unit. Does the smaller unit have any USB's? Or just the one 12v plug?

 

[Brett From Ark]

Has anyone used the $175 PowerPak battery box? I emailed Brett with questions, but haven't heard back.

I just want to run my Engel MT40 fridge and charge the phones with the smaller unit. Does the smaller unit have any USB's? Or just the one 12v plug?

Hi ebg18t

i have emailed back to your questions but just in case you log on here before you check emails the Power pack product code DA10W is not available for supply in the USA it is only available for supply in Australia, the power pack has one 12 volt outlet and no USB charging port.

if you have anymore questions please ask away

Regards

Brett from Ark

 

[ebg18t]

Ahh. Well I guess that solves that. So I suppose the larger unit is the way to go. Thanks Brett!

 

[AML]

If anyone is interested, I saw one for sale in the FS section of this forum.

 

[Brett From Ark]

Ahh. Well I guess that solves that. So I suppose the larger unit is the way to go. Thanks Brett!

Hi ebg18t

the powerpack is now available and ready to ship out from our USA HQ the link is below if you want to have a look at it

https://www.arkportablepower.com/powerpack?categoryId=36

if you have any questions about this item please ask.

Regards

Brett from Ark

 

[Brett From Ark]

Ark 2014 Christmas New year shut down period

Hi all

just wanted to advise that Ark Australia will be closed from Friday 19/12/2014 and re open Monday 05/01/2015, you are still able to make purchases from the USA website no problem at all, if you require tech support you will have to wait until after the 05/01/2014.

i will do my best to log on and check if there are any questions in this shut down period, but as i am going camping i may not get good connection.

Regards

Brett from Ark

 

[ebg18t]

Hi ebg18t

the powerpack is now available and ready to ship out from our USA HQ the link is below if you want to have a look at it

https://www.arkportablepower.com/powerpack?categoryId=36


if you have any questions about this item please ask.

Regards

Brett from Ark

Awesome. Be in touch after turkey day.