Day Cab Battery

[PaulNZ]

Hi All

I'm building a King Hauler with no sleeper and I'd like your advice on where to hide the battery

Cheers
Paul

[cosworth34677]

Hi All

I'm building a King Hauler with no sleeper and I'd like your advice on where to hide the battery

Cheers
Paul

i have done it to ways, hide it in between the frame rails in the back.
or get a thin 2s lipo and put in the front over the gearbox.

[mavrick0]

What I did with my day cab was put my ESC and RX on top of the servo's which left me the whole tray for a battery. Right now I'm running a traxxas mini revo lipo pack and just using a piece of Velcro to hold it down. This was just a quick throw together for a show. Now that I have some time I'm probably going to see if a shorty lipo pack will fit and this should give me a lot more runtime since they are twice the capacity of the mini revo packs. I will admit taking the screws out to change the battery is a bit of pain but I only had to do it once through during a one day show.

[JoseFL10-4]

For my day cabs, I use a planetary gearbox work really good nice torque.
http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah47/piarty/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_160840_zpsyglge89v.jpg (http://s1377.photobucket.com/user/piarty/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_160840_zpsyglge89v.jpg.html)
http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah47/piarty/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_160945_zpsskpmnfq4.jpg (http://s1377.photobucket.com/user/piarty/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_160945_zpsskpmnfq4.jpg.html)
http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah47/piarty/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_161043_zpsclyid1jk.jpg (http://s1377.photobucket.com/user/piarty/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_161043_zpsclyid1jk.jpg.html)

[Stuff]

What I did with my day cab was put my ESC and RX on top of the servo's which left me the whole tray for a battery. Right now I'm running a traxxas mini revo lipo pack and just using a piece of Velcro to hold it down. This was just a quick throw together for a show. Now that I have some time I'm probably going to see if a shorty lipo pack will fit and this should give me a lot more runtime since they are twice the capacity of the mini revo packs. I will admit taking the screws out to change the battery is a bit of pain but I only had to do it once through during a one day show.

what size battery in MAH? does pretty good?

For my day cabs, I use a planetary gearbox work really good nice torque.
http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah47/piarty/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_161043_zpsclyid1jk.jpg (http://s1377.photobucket.com/user/piarty/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/20140718_161043_zpsclyid1jk.jpg.html)

I have that same gearbox. Going to be doing same cab like PaulNZ is to I guess lol.

did you have any troubles mounting it? are you using a full size stick pack or 2c lipo?

sorry for slight hijack. have same questions lol :cop:

[PaulNZ]

I want to try and get the perfect size battery to fit under the seats in the cab so I can retain most of the interior, or I will put it in the chassis rails and put checker plate over it, this will be a last resort as the trucks in the bush have open chassis for obvious reasons............

Thanks for all the replies, all good options.

I will post what I do when it works so you can all see.

[Supermario]

Mine has a 2200 lipo that fits the back width of cab no problem.....just a location possibility?.....

http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r620/Kinghauler2012/image-04_zpsfcac17c8.jpeg

http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r620/Kinghauler2012/image-05_zpsb6f286f7.jpeg

I did move things around a bit, got the driver seat in and dash....it's a work truck, who needs a passenger seat anyway? :lol:

[JoseFL10-4]

I use a regular 7.2v or a 8.4v