Battery tray for trailer?

[s.d.willie]

Hey guys,

I was curious of a good place to get a battery tray for my trailer. I picked up a boat and trailer and it has an electric winch which I would like to use but its just a bare red/black wire. Rather than wire it to my car i have a deep cycle marine battery I would like to use. I would like to mount it on the opposite side of the winch or perhaps move the trailer jack forward and turn the battery sideways.

 

[fhhuber]

Generally, just get the black plastic battery box from Wal Mart....

You can get a lockable metal storage box appropriate size but you would have to drill it for ventilation. All batteries need ventilation.

 

[alldodge]

Agree ^^
Could use an AGM battery and then it wouldn't need ventilation, but do think that sooner or later someone will like you battery more then you. I would suggest running cables from your battery back with a quick connector. This way you don't need to make sure the battery is charged or other maintenance.

If this isn't a big boat might just replace the winch with a hand crank. Some times folks that have less strength install the electric winch to help them out

 

[s.d.willie]

I have a hand crank which can be used to manually turn the winch. The boat is not heavy its a 1050 lb fiberglass Larson flyer 166 but I would still like to use the winch since its mounted there. I already have the minnkota trolling power center box with a battery inside it I just have to figure out how to mount it to the trailer on a tray with a bracket hopefully