James,
I have a pair of hard saddle bags, that although the
appearance is debatable (I like them) I could easily install a 12 or
18 AH gel cell in one of them - or a pair of smaller batteries for
even weight....
I hadn't thought of an ammo box - that would make a heckuva
solution if I didn't have the saddlebags.....
Back to GreenZero's comment about the cross charging - I was thinking
actually of running the battery entirely separate of the bike's
electrical system - but - even with an 18 AH battery, I'd get about 3
hours out of it before it was dead. That would work for short day
trips, but anything longer than a morning or afternoon ride would
leave me with little cooling.
Hmmmm...
Back to the pondering!
-Joey
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:39 PM, James O'Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been contemplating a second battery as well. My idea was to use an
> ammo case and mount it coming off the swingarm. It could be part battery case
> and part trunk. I would be able to make it lockable as well.
>
> - James O'Gorman
>
> On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Joey Kelley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>> I've been thinking - this is when people usually run for the
>> hills screaming BTW - I have an electrically assisted cooler that
>> would fit almost exactly on the luggage rack behind the sissy bar of
>> my new ride. This cooler uses a fan and heatsink to pull heat from
>> inside the cooler and keep the contents cooler than the ice would
>> alone.
>> The fan draws between 4 and 5 amps continuous - based on the
>> rating on the unit and the fact that pop the circuit breaker on a 4
>> amp power supply when I run it for long periods of time. I don't think
>> it would be a good idea to plug a load that big into a bike that has a
>> 14 amp Alternator - I have a feeling I wouldn't be able to sustain the
>> charge in the battery for very long.
>> So my thought was add a second battery and a pair of solar
>> panels - hoping to get a half an amp out of the panels in direct sun.
>> The panels would be of course more to extend the life of the charge
>> than to actually run the fan.
>> Thoughts?
>> -Joey
>>
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