Transporting batteries when off bike

Rumik

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Jul 23, 2018
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I'm wondering how best to transport my Bosch 400Wh frame type battery in a vehicle when off the bike. I'd like to put it in a box to prevent it rattling around and to prevent anything shorting the terminals but I can't seem to find anything ready-made the right size (330x100x100mm). Unless anyone can suggest something suitable I guess I'll have to cobble something together out of a cardboard box.

Ideas anyone?

Mike
 

Wander

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Speak to your dealer. They are likely to have a load of the proper size cardboard boxes that the batteries come in.
 
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Danidl

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There is not a snow ball chance in hell of your Bosch battery shorting.. unless perhaps you intend carrying it in a container filled with metal shavings. .and even then I doubt it. There is a safety interlock whereby signals have to come on the auxiliary connection before the main terminals go live.... My suggestion is to leave it on the floor carpet , passenger side, ..you don't want it sliding under the break pedal.
 
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soundwave

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its a battery not a thermonuclear weapon :D
 

Steve Dyson

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I ride with my home made battery pack in 3 ice cream tubs inside a rucksack and they havent shorted out, i would expect an expensive battery pack would be perfectly fine in a cardboard box with packing materials round them if you are taking them in a car/van, if you are carrying them in a back pack, just wrap them in bubble wrap and carry them. they are built to handle bumping around
 
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