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SirJakesus
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About the boombox... a CD player may skip unless it has shock protection which is no good out on the road. Something with a tape deck or aux in would work for MP3 players and sat radios though.
About that battery.
First check this link, I'd go for the 5ah or 8ah batteries. Personally I bought the 5ah not knowing at the time how much space I would have to work with, when that battery eventually dies I'll be ordering the 8ah. The extra couple pounds and size should be well worth it.
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/batteries.html
For a charger I bought the 12v 1a auto battery charger with 2-port inline plug. However the first charger on that page with the coaxial connection would be much easier to setup the charging port on your bike. The connector I bought for the 2 port inline required some tinkering and figuring out before I could string the wires up to it while the coaxial ports seem to be pre-wired. At the moment it appears this particular site is out of the coaxial chargers (probably because they're easier to wire.)
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/chargers.html
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/wireconnectors.html
I also purchased a bunch of these tab terminal connectors (at the last link.) The lower number AWG can handle bigger wire and are larger connectors. You need at least 2 female connectors for the battery tabs. They're really cheap so I bought a bunch of them. Splice connectors are nice too in some cases to join 2 or 3 wires together without having to solder and seal them.
Get a 30 amp ato fuse holder as well. You can get the fuses just about anywhere. This is just in case you short something out so you don't have a fire.
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/fuseholders.html
You can also buy wire by the foot there, seem to be competitive prices but you can definitely find this easily in any auto supply store. I used 16ga.
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/wire.html
Keep in mind you can definitely find this stuff easily on other sites but this one seems to have just about everything needed to power a motorebike up electrically in one place. And I prefer to combine shipping costs as much as possible and spread my credit card number around as little as I can. Their products worked for me and from the sound of it you should have the ability to make sure your wiring is sound (multimeter.) Be sure to get a good wire stripper and crimper. Get something with large wide handles so you can clamp down those connectors without killing your hands. I bought the one on their site but it wasn't very good. Stripped wires fine but crimping hurt like heck and didn't do a good job. I ended up going out to buy another one from the auto section of walmart (also a ton of awesome stuff there) If anything I can help you out with the wiring as long as you provide pictures.
You could also wire up a car style power port to plug anything into your system like car cellphone chargers, gps units, powered tire air compressors etc etc etc
About that battery.
First check this link, I'd go for the 5ah or 8ah batteries. Personally I bought the 5ah not knowing at the time how much space I would have to work with, when that battery eventually dies I'll be ordering the 8ah. The extra couple pounds and size should be well worth it.
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/batteries.html
For a charger I bought the 12v 1a auto battery charger with 2-port inline plug. However the first charger on that page with the coaxial connection would be much easier to setup the charging port on your bike. The connector I bought for the 2 port inline required some tinkering and figuring out before I could string the wires up to it while the coaxial ports seem to be pre-wired. At the moment it appears this particular site is out of the coaxial chargers (probably because they're easier to wire.)
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/chargers.html
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/wireconnectors.html
I also purchased a bunch of these tab terminal connectors (at the last link.) The lower number AWG can handle bigger wire and are larger connectors. You need at least 2 female connectors for the battery tabs. They're really cheap so I bought a bunch of them. Splice connectors are nice too in some cases to join 2 or 3 wires together without having to solder and seal them.
Get a 30 amp ato fuse holder as well. You can get the fuses just about anywhere. This is just in case you short something out so you don't have a fire.
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/fuseholders.html
You can also buy wire by the foot there, seem to be competitive prices but you can definitely find this easily in any auto supply store. I used 16ga.
http://www.electricscooterparts.com/wire.html
Keep in mind you can definitely find this stuff easily on other sites but this one seems to have just about everything needed to power a motorebike up electrically in one place. And I prefer to combine shipping costs as much as possible and spread my credit card number around as little as I can. Their products worked for me and from the sound of it you should have the ability to make sure your wiring is sound (multimeter.) Be sure to get a good wire stripper and crimper. Get something with large wide handles so you can clamp down those connectors without killing your hands. I bought the one on their site but it wasn't very good. Stripped wires fine but crimping hurt like heck and didn't do a good job. I ended up going out to buy another one from the auto section of walmart (also a ton of awesome stuff there) If anything I can help you out with the wiring as long as you provide pictures.
You could also wire up a car style power port to plug anything into your system like car cellphone chargers, gps units, powered tire air compressors etc etc etc