{"id":774,"date":"2011-12-15T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2011-12-23T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T20:16:54","slug":"4-2-8-battery-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/4-2-8-battery-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"4.2.8 Battery Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"28\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/04-bulkheads\/\">04 - Bulkheads<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The installation of the Battery shelf (or tray) was listed early on in the build manual. But I&#8217;ve been putting it off hoping that a new, small, light-weight, high-tech battery would become available. There are tons of them in 12 volts, but they haven&#8217;t started making 24 volt versions yet.<\/p>\n<p>So I took the supplied part and decided to improve it a bit. The factory part is just a flat piece with a bottom that fits the inside of the fuselage. I added a small &#8220;wall&#8221; around it. That way, if it ever decides to try and run away, it won&#8217;t fall into the landing gear and create more problems.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my trip down was part business and I flew commercial so my phone was my only camera. But here&#8217;s the battery tray with the low wall around it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-15-IMAG0650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-775\" title=\"2011-12-15 IMAG0650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-15-IMAG0650-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then the corners are cleaned up and a layer of BID inside and out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-15-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-778\" title=\"2011-12-15 002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-15-002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hole in the corner is to allow a slightly larger battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"28\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/04-bulkheads\/\">04 - Bulkheads<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The installation of the Battery shelf (or tray) was listed early on in the build manual. But I&#8217;ve been putting it off hoping that a new, small, light-weight, high-tech battery would become available. There are tons of them in 12 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/4-2-8-battery-shelf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"series":[28],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","series-04-bulkheads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}