The “80% Done but Good Enough for Government Work” Build

[Adventurous]

This is awesome! I love that you aren't afraid to admit mistakes. I hope you don't mind that I laughed several times reading the follies. Keep the pictures coming, I'd love to see more of the trip.

 

[guthriealexander]

Hey really cool home build. I would sure like to see how you build that separate battery/charge box.

Cruiserpilot, I'm not using that battery box like that anymore. But I'll get you some details on what I put together. At the time I wanted something modular and a cheaper alternative to a commercial battery box. The ctek charge controller fit my bill because it accepted both alternator and solar power inputs at the same time. Then mounted a blue sea fuse box and 12v plugs. Everything is just screwed to the walls of the front runner wolf pack box. I never had a good place to mount the arb compressor and thought having a fully modular system that I could choose to run off solar would be cool.

The biggest downsides were weight. The box probably weighed 80-100 lbs with the battery and compressor.

I'll throw up some more pics today.

 

[cruiserpilot]

that would be appreciated. I'm looking at the Ctek for my truck for the second battery, I don't think I'll have a separate box either. I just get so much information
and knowledge from how others do stuff that easily translates into my truck.
Have you experience with solar power set up for your truck?

 

[guthriealexander]

that would be appreciated. I'm looking at the Ctek for my truck for the second battery, I don't think I'll have a separate box either. I just get so much information
and knowledge from how others do stuff that easily translates into my truck.
Have you experience with solar power set up for your truck?

I run a 60 Watt panel hard mounted to the roof, that is connected full time to the ctek. I had 120 watts total, but I really don't need the power, to keep my fridge, lights, computer, cameras, and phone all running the 60 watt seems to work great.






I now have the compressor mounted on the side of the bed, all the battery junk is behind the plywood as well its kinda a mess back there though. I keep a fire extinguisher close by. Also just noticed the compressor looks pretty crooked in that picture.

 

[guthriealexander]

Almost done loading up. Trip report coming soon.

 

[Townsend]

Such a practical, efficient setup. Cheers man!


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[guthriealexander]

As promised, just as halfassed as my build thread. 5 months of overlanding later, a trip report!

http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...dventure-West-The-Pancho-and-Lefty-Expedition