Battery tray and limit strap:
Limiter strap:
I have so much rear travel, I decided to put a limit strap on it. Keep the suspension from tearing itself apart in an "incident" and limit some travel. Suspension works better with the limiter.
Battery tray:
I decided to run 2 packs. The large gel cell for the main motor and receiver power, and another 5300mAh 3s lipo pack to run the lights. I thought about it, and decided if the lights killed the main reciever pack, I could potentially have to carry this thing a few hundred feet. Not pleasant. this way when the lights kill the pack, I still have full radio power. I went to the extra work of making the battery tray removable for possible improvements down the road. I left room behind the 5300 pack for possible switches, relays or a terminal block. Whatever I might end up with "electrically", I'll have room to mount it.
I'm debating putting a "master kill" switch somewhere on the exterior. I'm thinking right on the front bumper in some clever fashion. if it should ever do a "runaway" and it hits something, it would auto shut off, kinda like an airbag. Like this one.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/PRF-30205/?rtype=10
Lights are drawing about 23.5 amps as a set of 4. Should get me 10-12 minutes of full power with all 4 lights on. I'm probably going to set them up on a different channel so I can turn them on remotely. That would be kinda slick.
