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| When I bought my boat the trolling batteries were set up with a single bank charger and a Perko switch. I am tired of having to switch from one battery to the other to charge them, so I bought a 3 bank charger, 2 banks for the trolling batteries and one for the cranker.
My question is how do I set the batteries up to power the trolling motor? Do I need to keep the switch and run one battery at a time to the motor or can I hook the batteries in a series and get rid of the switch. If I can do that, how are the wires ran from battery to battery and then to the trolling motor. Also do you still hook the charger to each battery if it is set up that way?
Any help on how to set this up would be great. I don't know much about hooking up batteries.
M4L | |
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Location: Central WI | I kind of just did this on my boat, so I'll tell you what I found out.....
If you're running a 24V system you hook both batteries up in series ( connect the pos of one battery to the negative of the other battery and the remaining two terminals go to your trollling motor.) I was told you will still need a seperate bank for each battery. In this setup, the switch would not be neccesary.
If your running a 12V system with two batteries, you could keep the switch and select which battery to use and still run a seperate charging bank to each or I believe you could wire them in parallel by hooking up the pos together and the neg together and then to your trolling motor. (I would ask more questions about this way as I'm no electrician either!) In this case I would imagine you would still need a seperate bank for each, but like I said, if your running a 12V system, I would wait till someone confirms that this is correct.
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Best way to hook up batteries??