Dual Battery Kit
I made some more progress this weekend, after finishing up some customer vehicles over this past week. The dual battery tray I fabbed up was painted using wrinkle paint, and it came out amazing, as well as the air-box mounting brackets. The tray is made of 10 gauge sheet steel, and it has zero flex, with six mounting points it easily supports the 100+ lbs of battery weight. I wanted to stack the batteries front to back instead of side-by-side because I plan on doing a Hemi swap at a later date. The side-by-side versions do not allow the room necessary for the Hemi, so I did not want to have to redo the battery tray at the time of the swap. Also with the stock airbox in its normal location I can utilize an AEV Snorkel kit, which is also coming soon. Here are a few shots:
I was able to use the stock fuse box without an issue:
Here is the
National Luna Intelligent Solenoid, the brains behind the dual battery system, which I mounted to the battery hold-down strap I fabbricated:
This dual battery setup also utilizes a
National Luna dual battery controller, which monitors the batteries charge levels, and has a built-in momentary switch, allowing me to connect the batteries for hard starting situations.
And here is the final system wired up, note the
sPOD unit is wired to the Auxilary Battery:
There is a lot going on in this photo, due in part to the multitude of factory harness plugs and wires, which I may work on lengthening and cleaning up at a later date, but this is good for now, and I have other work to prepare the JK for our trip out west at the end of the week.
