DIY Lithium Power Box Build | 18ah Portable Charging Station | NPLife

what's up guys it's way too cold outside to go fishing so today we're gonna do a little DIY project we are going to build a power box so this year we're gonna run to hummingbirds on the boat and every time for some reason we crank over the big motor it cuts off the the electronics so we decided to run it from its own battery source and I thought a power box would be one of the best options I say for us so we're gonna get started building this thing I will put all of the materials that we used in the description of this video and then we'll also put all of the tools and stuff alright so before we get started this video was heavily inspired by JDS outdoors you made a video about four years ago and ever since then I've had this idea in my head that I wanted to build a power box I'm mixing his video with a couple newer kits and stuff that are coming out and putting my own little flair on stuff so we are going to make a 18 amp hour lithium power box I've run a lot of GoPros and cameras and it's battery management's difficult so let's uh let's get the building okay so first things first this little plano ammo can it's just big enough to fit an 18 an power battery it's got a little gasket around it to make it water resistant I think this was like 10 bucks at scheels second the lithium battery so we've got an amped outdoors 18 hour lithium iron phosphate battery this thing is substantially lighter than a lot of the lead-acid batteries and it lasts quite a bit longer so this is what we're basically putting the whole build around next is instead of trying to come up with all the components myself I bought this do-it-yourself kit from ice whole power kit comes with USB voltage and cigarette lighter I'm gonna take all of these out and drill my own holes for it it also comes with six of these little lights six little lights six switches and two banana clips because I liked what JDS outdoors did with his fuse box I actually chose to do an add-on which you can do through ice hole power and I got this six blade fuse box next we'll go through some of the tools that we're going to use for this build crimper wire cutter and stripper got some 16 gauge wire zip ties I've got some 5 amp fuses somewhere in here I've got some 3 amp fuses some machine screws somewhere around 25 of these little female and quick connects got a couple of these larger gauge female and Quick Connect social UI we're using some of these little ring ends and then I've got some larger diameter ring ends other than that I've got an inch and 1/8 hole saw a little hole bit saw whatever you want to call it and then somewhere in here there we go I've got a 3/4 inch drill bit as well yeah that's pretty much all the things that are there alright so the first thing that I want to do is drill the holes for these guys right here and how I'm going to do that is I'm going to have a hole drilled Center here center here and Center over here I am a freak for symmetry so I'm going to do my absolute best to make sure I like measure things and get them as lined up as perfect because if I don't it will drive me crazy so we're gonna do that first here [Music] okay forgot to mention this guy [Music] okay so now that I've got those three drilled now what I'm going to do is I'm going to drill a hole here here here and here for the switches and then I'm also gonna put one switch right here and this is going to be the master turn on switch [Music] okay so I just about had a pretty decent mix up there when I went to drill out this hole which is gonna be a switch hole it actually caught on to this that was over there and it broke a piece out and so it looks like it's still gonna work which is nice but it's not gonna be as clean looking as I want it to be so I'm gonna go in there with the scalpel this is my wife's pretty being scalpel and take out this piece right there before I drill the next two holes okay so now I'll drill those last two so now I'm just gonna go in and clean up all of those holes with scalpel okay switches there are in oh I guess we got this on the side okay so there's all the buttons main power switch on the side switches for all the auxiliaries and things right there so next we're just going to get these things taken out of here and then start getting them put into the box themselves all right so I got the volt meter right there actually in there pretty solid but what I'm gonna have to do is trim away some of these two side pieces here so that I can actually thread this back piece on so ya gonna be a little bit of a little bit of tinkering going on there some more cutting okay cut that piece out now this can go right inside and I can just tighten up this voltmeter okay voltage meter on two switches two switches looking good just got to keep her going so now I'm gonna do the same thing basically going to trim out pretty much all of this trim out pretty much all of this okay so now we've got those two ports nice and cleaned out so what I plan to do is I'll put the USB here on the right side and we'll put the cigarette lighter on the left side just like that so far like a glove okay there's all the main ports voltage meter my buttons to flippies one is cigarette lighter the other is my double these are five volts each 2.1 amps looking good okay so next we're gonna work on this little guy right here okay this is going to be my my fuse block so a fuse block is going to get mounted right there actually we're gonna do like this fuse block is gonna get mounted like this and so for me to do this well one more time I'm gonna need to cut out some pieces so what I'm gonna do here is with my sharpie just going to make a mark mark now we'll cut it out now this should sit right in there perfect so yeah looks good so we've got now put some machine screws chuck out right here through this to hold it on so I gotta find the drill bit that I brought over here okay so what we're gonna do line that up nicely I'm just going to touch through two holes see if our machine screws fit through said two holes look like they're gonna be good [Music] okay so now we've got fuses all of our buttons our two posts there master there now I want to wire in the lights so we've got a total of six of these lights I'm going to put two through the front right here two through the side actually let's do it like that - through the side each way so I can set this into my ice house and have it illuminate the entirety of the front part of the ice house very good okay so here's where I want my lights - on the right side - in the center - on the left side that's gonna allow me to set this right in the center of my ice house and basically shine light on every hole for the entirety of that whole pop-up all right well I got the lights all in so I got two on the side two on the front yeah a little crooked whatever - on the side now what that's gonna let me do it'll just be able to hold it like this and I'll have lights all over in front me that'll be pretty sweet never sucks to have headlights okay so now the last thing that I want to put on these is going to be the banana clips and that is these two guys and they're gonna go right there so how you go about putting those things on is we take off these little bolts here and like we don't want to lose any of this stuff right take off this back piece just like this and now you can just set them right on where they go here set them right there make two marks drill the holes block okay four holes now we're just gonna take these I'm gonna go right up front black in the back positive negative this side here put that back piece on beauty put one of these locking washers one of the regular washers and one of these little nuts here I'm gonna leave the other two ends off and then once it comes time to hook up our then we'll use one of those little ring connectors there we'll jump one to each side and yeah this thing is turning out really nice ready okay so I'm gonna use this little bad boy to tighten those things down that looks pretty dang good huh look at that all right so now that this is all done now it's just time to wire everything that is going to take a while okay so before we get started with the wiring I put the battery in obviously and so I've got the battery as far to the back as I can because that's gonna be the longest position everything is going to be in so I want to make sure that all my wires reach from the long position here over to where they need to so now we start little by little wiring this whole thing and we're gonna start by taking the negatives from the farthest possible spot and then jumping them all the way over to the battery so then I go from this negative and I'll splice in another negative just going from there to there good so then we'll just twist these two together here this here's where we're gonna use these yellow ones give it a little wiggle make sure everything is tight now we connect that grounder there and we're gonna do the exact same thing from this one to this one actually we'll go from this one to this one to this one to this one to this one to this one and then we'll actually do two like oh how will I do this I'll go from here to here to here I'm going to tie in all of these wires to this one and then run that back to the main power switch and then that one back to the battery cool okay so now I've got this last ground so everything is went ground to here and I'm gonna jump it all the way to the on switch and then back to the battery back here but first I need to make some sense of this jumbled mess here this is all of the cables from those lights and so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna cut them off strip them because in the inside these big cables or these small ones and I'll run the negative to the negative I will run the positive to the switch [Music] okay so all of those negatives and now wound to their they actually need to run another small wire okay now all of those grounds go from here to the very last switch and then this last one is gonna go to the ground to the battery okay so now it's time to start doing the power we're gonna run the power from the battery to the switch one I'm actually gonna run the out from switch one first just because it's like a really long one and what I'm gonna do here is actually run this big long out from the first switch all the way up to the volt meter which is here then I'm going to split that one from the voltmeter out around into the post here on the fuse block and that's going to make it so when I hit the on button it shows me how many volts are on the battery and puts power to like the master now we'll run this little jumper right here from this post down around the fuse block here into this peg right here let's see if I can get that to focus that peg right there and that's going to get power to the fuse box [Music] and now just a test all my ground what I'm gonna do here is all run by my little jumper from here switch one the power in from your power and I just want to plug it in and if I flip the switch on then what should happen is we should get a reading on the volt meter switch number one power to the voltmeter so it's 13 point 5 volts success okay so now I want to choose where or which switches I won't wear so when I have this closed I want the closest one to the end to be for the flashlights then the next one is going to be the posts the USB in the 12 volt so we're gonna wire that accordingly one thing I'm gonna do is to make this easier I'm gonna run a connector where I'm just gonna bunch these all up put them into a male end and run up another wire with a female end to there just because it ends up being such a cluster good that way now clean that up it's just one nice tight little bundle then I'm just gonna run a little female end from the switch to there okay like I said we'll run this female and male into the female end and then I'll run that to a switch so the next ones I'm going to run to the posts so I'm gonna run positive from here over to here with a splitter down to there okay so here's the piece from the switch to the first post to the second post now the switch so this is the one I want for the USB and the USB is here so we're gonna run one from here up over and into there okay now the last switch is going to run from this post to right there a cigarette lighter okay well now that I have this jumbled mess everything is ran now from the switches to whatever they're going to now all I need to do is run the wires from where the fuse box goes from the main power out to each of the four switches and it should be a functional box all right boxes all cleaned up now the only thing that's left is because this thing's not gonna run at all because I don't have any fuses in there I already realized that my machine screws are a little too long that they won't let my fuse bot box like hold their thing close so I'm gonna have to shorten these up I'll cut them off or something here all right so there you have it we've got the power box we'll just kind of run through everything really quickly on the side on-off switch that turns on the voltmeter switch number one here is going to be to the 12 volt switch number 2 goes here to these WS B's switch number 3 goes to the banana posts and switch number 4 to the lighting cool this is all run off of a amped outdoors 18 amp hour lithium pretty cool it's gonna come in handy this year awesome hope you liked the video guys if you did and you have any value that you got out of this thing do me a favor hit that like in the subscribe button feel free to share this go over and check out JD s outdoors original video because he was absolutely the inspiration behind this build I did a lot of the same things that he did but I just added a few little things that were my own guys thank you so much for watching until next time keep living your North Prairie life [Music]

Channel: North Prairie Life

Views: 163,807

Rating: 4.8886747 out of 5

Keywords: power box, diy power box, lithium power box, dakota lithium, amped outdoors, ice hole power, portable power box, 12v power box, 12v battery box, lithium battery box, lithium battery, Fishing north dakota, north dakota fishing, north prairie life, nplife, DIY kayak battery, kayak battery, portable camping battery, portable trolling motor battery, humminbird battery, helix 7 battery, lithium flasher battery

Id: 6PJxkR9JqDs

Length: 22min 19sec (1339 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020