Great review. You hit on a lot of key points. I built pretty much the same thing using a harbor freight plastic ammo can and a 18Ah AGM battery. Except I dont have a light. But I will soon LOL. I like your audio. Some folks audio leave a lot to be desired.
Thanks for the comment man! I was in a rush to get a portable power solution last for my vacation week. Probably would’ve built my own otherwise. But I gotta say, I’m SO glad I bought this one! It’s nice to have a solid pre-fabricated power box option. Thanks for the support! Clean audio is often easily overlooked, but just as important as clean video, if not sometimes even more important. Learned that early on when I started my day job and when I was doing freelance content creating. 73, KI5IRE!
Good review. The way the battery is "secured" in there looks pretty shady. Does the battery bounce around in there? I'd be worried about it banging against the internals of the plugs and breaking stuff.
I made a box similar, but slighlty different and built to my own specifications. I started with a standard "dry box" which fits 30Ah LiFePO4 with just enough space to include the "wall-side periphrials," which include a dual port quick charge USB port and a PowerWerx single Anderson Powerpole plug. The bulk of the cost was the battery, and yes, the powerpole port was also quite expensive, but "you only cry once" -right?! To charge, I back feed via the powerpole socket and a solar set up. Maybe I'll make a video of it all, with specs and costs, but at the moment it hasn't been opened since I closed it up with the build.
Using the cheap foam with insufficient glue is a huge negative in my opinion. With accidental rough handling it will allow the battery to bounce around inside the case. Use more or better adhesive and rather than just have the battery float in the middle with no support to the edge of the case, add more foam to fill the voids. Even if the glue would let go at that point just the nature of having the extra foam would keep the battery from bouncing around. And it would help keep the glue from separating. This is something you can build yourself and save a lot of money and build it better.
I looked up the price of both of the battery boxes and you can build these cheaper than $200 and $260 respectively for the 10 amp hour or 15 amp hour and it will be built better.
