[wurthusa]

I'm building a pit box to hold things like spare parts, chargers and soldering iron. While I like the new bags on wheels, I hate spending 15 minutes getting everthing set up at the track. Cord management drives me crazy so I'm planning out a setup where I plug one cord into the outlet, the other end into the box and everything is powered up.

 

[jason_clark]

pit box

not the best but works really well fozzy767 made this for me. he is one of the best when it comes to wood working.. jason clark

 

[RCMits]

very nice!!

 

[wurthusa]

Here's what I came up with. 2 boxes that each weigh around 30 pounds. 1 cord for each box that supplies power to everything. I channeled the back and dropped in a 1/4" piece of plexi to help keep the weight down.

Back:

Plug receptacle:

Front:

Box 1:

I mounted a dual rail 18 ampX2 power supply behind the discharge trays and built a coverplate with hookups. 2 110 volt server fans make sure the power supply and discharge trays don't everheat. The 12V meter lets me know that the power supply is on and that it is providing the correct voltage. I'm not happy with the red vinyl on the cover plate so I'll probably change that soon.

Box 2:

This was the first box I built. Everything is self contained and it makes life a lot easier at the track when everything is at eye level and there aren't cords and parts in the way.

 

[RCMits]

pretty damn sweet looking there.

 

[wurthusa]

pretty damn sweet looking there.

Don't look too close. There's a ton of touchup work and final touches that need to be done. Including the plexi back panels and graphic work, I have less than $40 in each of them. I figure I would have spent at least that much on 2 toolboxes and not had the flexibility to put things where I want them.

 

[DynoMoHum]

This has to be one of the longest running threads in Hobbytalk History... first post 03-11-2002, 03:47 AM

but what's with RCMits "Join Date: Dec 1969" Now that's one old time Hobbytalk dude... Heck, he must of joined back while working on the darpa project that created the internet... Heck Al Gore must have been sitting along side him when he joined.

Maybe Al helped build a pit box?

 

[RCMits]

There is a guy locally that bends plexi or acrylic or some kinda "hard plastic" into a similar charging station. pretty cool stuff what creative people can do.

My "special" join-date is well.. classified. Arpa, Darpa, dippity doo ;-) Nothing like 1822 transmission protocol. Don't worry.. in a year we'll reach the east coast. ;-)

Here is one I saw at the "Snowbirds". He sets one up like this EVERY year:

Then here is another one.. i have another angle of this one.. but.. it was gigantic too:

i've realized i dont have space to lug around something big like that... :-( but it would be nice to have an "all-in-one" system.

 

[jason_clark]

almost been a year since the last post so bump bump

 

[RCMits]

a year plus.. bumpy i got bored.

 

[Rocketseller]

Now Thats A Nice Setup...

 

[RCMits]

gotta bump this thread for awesomeness..

 

[PITBULL]

Here I am, at work at my new workstation.I am just about to discover a new tire compound.It works off 3volts.I can't reveal the secret at the moment.:hat: