2 battery boxes don't fit. Ok to go sand boxes?

[Gigattime]

Looks great.

[Kenp51]

Originally Posted by Gigattime

Looks great.

Thanks. It was a slap together.
I also made a bed cover for the truck.
Covers and Shells were, are out my $ reach right now.
I call them one day wonders (both batteries box and cover). Built painted in one day and then installed next day.

Real bad hip knee and back issues. I can work about 5-10 minutes then haft to sit and wait for the pain levels to come down. I have found I can push through that and hit a point were I kinda just get numb. Then I can get a lot done. But boy is there hell to pay afterwards. I do that a lot.

Ken

[NomadBD]

If you are going with two batteries wired in parallel, You will definitely want to have them both the same brand, size, capacity, and age (buy both at same time). Otherwise, you will have problems with amp hour capacities and battery health.

[Kenp51]

Yep, kinda live and learn ( or more like RElearn).
The smaller battery was on the trailer when we bought. And I have unintentionally gave it rough treatment. Thought I had everything turned off on to find I still had a drain that flattened it a couple of times. Then I just removed it be sure or disconnected one lead.
Then I thought I was good to go only to come our in the morning to find the propane leak detector buzzing. And I had the trailer plugged in. Go connection. 110 sockets working. Blown 30 amp fuses on the converter. Some never to be named don of gun had dropped the battery in backwards and consuquintly hooked the cables backwards.
Fixed that vowing to never ever make that mistake again.
2 days later same alarm going off. A little trouble shooting and double checking and I was able to determine that I had a blown diode in the converter.
I had just installed led lights in the trailer. I unhooked one battery lead and they started flickering at about 60hz to the eye.
Replace the converter with a much better one. Good to go now.
But yeah I do expect the original battery to give up the gohst before it's time

Ken

Originally Posted by NomadBD

If you are going with two batteries wired in parallel, You will definitely want to have them both the same brand, size, capacity, and age (buy both at same time). Otherwise, you will have problems with amp hour capacities and battery health.

[keymastr]

You will learn another costly lessen when that already compromised battery takes your new one with it. You will be better off removing it and in fact may have longer battery life between charges with one good one than you would having the compromised battery included.