B-D RV Battery Lock (12-volt)

You are so lucky that your battery tray is that far away from the coach. I had arm strong the bracket, and modify the battery box. Now tell the brand name of your battery box, because the ones that I got do not fit very well with the bracket. 

Serge -
I just went out to the garage & checked.
It is a group 27 "Attwood 'Power Guard' Battery Case".
I have had 2 of them for at least 10 years so hopefully they are still in production.

Nice write up Jeff, and it looks like a good fit on your trailer.  You are correct in that it won't stop a determined thief, not much will.  But it will send the "crime of opportunity" type thief(s) on their merry way....

 

                                       Erick

Thanks Erick. 
Yeah, have never had a problem, but for $33.00 I figured why not ...

Jeff, it looks good, and nice write-up.  It seems to fit the contours of the battery box just right.  Did you have to bend the bracket, or did it come that way? 

 

Bruce

Thanks Bruce. 
The bracket is bent that way.
It's a perfect fit around the battery tray & battery box.
There is no way that I could bend the bracket without destroying it.  It is very beefy.

Thanks, Jeff, for the quick response.  I was hoping the brackets were malleable, so that they could fit my rectangular battery box.  Oh well...

 

Bruce

Bruce -

I would call Bill Fox (the owner) in UT at (801) 897-0625.

He's a really nice guy and will most likely answer within a few rings (he did for me on 2 separate calls) even though he's at work - the battery locks are a side enterprise.

Anyway, he may actually be able to easily build one to your specifications.  Of course that's just a guess, but I would call him & ask if I were you.  

Thnx Jeff.

 

Bruce

I looked online and Amazon carries the Atwood 'Power Guard' Battery Case so does Wal-Mart. After struggling to put mine in and Frankenstein-them into submission I don't like they look. I'm covering the TT in the morning until March or April, so over the winter I'll get some angle iron and fabricate a new one, or modify the existing one. I was planning to call Bill Fox on Monday just to ask what battery box was used to fabricate his brackets. Now I know that the Atwood fits like a glove.

Just to keep the thread flowing here is the group 27 "Attwood 'Power Guard' Battery Case"/box (which also holds a group 29 battery):

http://www.attwoodmarine.com/s...y-Box-Power-Guard-27

Great link

Excellent write up and photos Jeff. Thieves and electricity take the easiest path towards accomplishing their goal. Now if we could somehow combine the two, we'd have a lot fewer thieves running around stealing people's stuff. 

Thanks James & Randy!  

I just ordered a pair of the B-D battery straps and some 4 digit MasterLock padlocks for our dual battery 1685. The battery straps just arrived and they are nice, heavy hardware. Much better than those nylon "belts" on our battery boxes!

Great job, Jeff.

 

I have a little story about the B-D battery lock. We ordered one and I (Simon) took it to the trailer to 'eye it up'. Then I got distracted and moved the trailer somewhere else, and, you guessed it, the darn B-D lock fell off where I was 'eyeing it up', never to be seen again. I called B-D and pulled the pity trick and they gave me 10% off a new set.

 

As it happens, I put on a replacement battery box cover this weekend, and replaced the OEM battery box strap with the B-D lock. Exactly the same way that Jeff did it. Why so long? 'Cuz the previous bike rack didn't allow room for the B-D lock around the battery.

 

I see that people are getting wiser, I'm glad that you folks are securing your assets. As I mentioned in one of my previous post, I might have to change the battery rack. The group 27 batteries are longer they take more room on the rack. I will have to relocate it like Jeff did, but the problem I can foresee is that the head of the self taping bolt might cause a high point on the battery case while putting on the bracket. This I don't know how to address?

We just returned from a 2-night dry camping trip.  Since it was only 2 nights I decided to go with our puny group 24 battery that came with the 1575 (we rarely use it and instead use a group 29 battery almost always).

The group 24 (from our dealer) came with a crappy (group 24) battery box that is square.

I wasn't sure if the battery lock would work with this box, but it did (a loose fit, but secure "enough") so I took a couple of pictures.  

You can also see that the 2 battery cables & the Victron Battery Monitor wire aren't in the way of the lock either.