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Battery Box Updated

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Following the post on my Battery Box than you can check here I am doing a new Battery Box Updated post with some new features.

I have changed the battery meter in order to be clearly see whether I am drawing current or charging the battery.

It is a Renogy and I used a wooden piece to fix the shunt, the charge controller as well as the fuse box.

It is working quite well and I am happy with the result.

I have two Anderson power poles, one is for the solar panel Sunslice Fusion 150 and the other one to plug the radio.

You can find photos here below:

Battery Box

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I am a big fan of K8MRD videos as well as Josh Ham Radio 2.0. This is where came the idea of building a Battery Box. I have already build one but I will start building a new one, I have made some mistakes that I would like to correct and obviously as soon as you have made some holes in a box it is hard to re-use it.

It all started with the choice of the battery, I read and watch a lot of videos but in the ham world one brand is very well known and this is the one I chose also: Bioenno.

Considering I wanted to run at 100w for as long as possible but still keeping a reasonable weight as well as size I chose the 50AH model. It should give me a very long operating time at 100w SSB.

I used some of the below components for building my battery box:

In order to charge the battery I can either use a normal charger (the one from Bioenno is a 10AH) or my 150w solar panel from Sunslice (Fusion 150).

It was a fun project and I will start a new build with some changes. Indeed I will use different Anderson powerpoles I got from Powerwerx and a new Renogy battery controller which will allow me to differentiate the current drawn from the battery and the current charging the battery.