Battery Trays
Overview
Overview
Battery Trays Overview
About Battery Trays
About Battery Trays
Two kinds of tray, for two different jobs: holding a bare battery where a box will not fit, and holding a battery box down where it lives.
Under a bonnet, inside a drawer system, on a shelf in a canopy, the battery often has a home already and just needs to be held in it. A box adds height, width and a lid to lift. A tray adds a base, a pair of clamps and a strap, and the battery sits exactly where it was going to sit anyway, now bolted to something.
Each comes with its own restraint. The bare-battery trays use clamps that land on the case edge, which stops the battery creeping as well as lifting. The box mounting trays use the straps the box maker supplies for them, sized to that box. Use the restraint the tray was designed with rather than improvising one.
Fit is model specific on both. The battery trays are sized to particular case dimensions, and a lithium case is usually a different shape to an AGM of the same capacity, so match the tray to the exact battery. The box trays match a specific box, original or Pro, and are not interchangeable.
Bolt the tray to structure, not to panel board. The tray is only as good as what it is fixed to.




