We've had the battery for some time, but its installation has just been completed. After the tongue box and spare tire added significant weight to the front of the trailer, we decided to move the battery to the galley. This required running a 10ga wire down through the bottom of the trailer and along the frame to the tongue box. I'm still not happy about that, but it should be fine. The battery itself is 55 lbs. and it would be catastrophic if it started bouncing around without restraint. It is held in place by two massive pieces of purpleheart epoxied to the galley floor. The vertical piece above the battery is a cam with a turnbuckle to tighten. It is connected to a structural beam above. The flat plywood is to distribute the load and not crack the battery case. The leads from the battery go to the terminal block on one of the purpleheart cleats. The ground goes straight to the tongue box, while the positive goes through a 30A circuit breaker first.
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