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| I am in the process of setting up my boat for the 24v trolling motor. It had a 12v motor before. I have the new batteries, but my question is how and what do I need to do to get this a 24v system? Thanks in advance for the info.
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Make sure your wires are heavy enough for the new 24 volt, I think 6ga is the lightest recomended. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
All you need to do to convert to a 24 volt system is to make one jumper cable to hook from one battery to the other in series. A series connection is just hooking the positive side of one battery to the negative of the other battery.
To complete the circuit, you hook the positive of your trolling motor wire to the open positive post, and the negative wire to the open negative post. You are all done.
With the batteries being as close as they are, you can get away with 8 gauge wire without issue. When running long lengths, the bigger wire helps to keep resistance to a minimum.
Enjoy the new system!!
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| Thanks for the info, where would I find a jumper cable? Hardware store, Cabelas, etc..? And I looked at my trolling motor wire that comes into the battery compartment, and it is 8ga. It also uses and marinco plug and adapter.
Thanks again,
Craig
Edited by 4reukmuskies 4/25/2010 1:10 PM
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I just use a short battery cable available at any auto parts store as a jumper, maybe overkill but works great. I melted 8ga when I went from 12 to 24 on only a 6' run. |
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| where did it melt at? |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | At the plug and about a foot of the wires coming in. |
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| make sure you add a breaker switch. not sure of the size, but it is important to have one. |
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| Is an inline fuse ok? I looked at my setup and there is a 40amp inline fuse on the main red lead. Where would the breaker go and what size would I need? |
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| If you bought a new trolling motor, the requirements for a breaker switch should be listed. If not, I'd call a marine dealer and ask them. I'd go with the breaker switch rather than the inline fuse. I believe Minnkota recommended a 60 amp circuit breaker switch. The dealer I talked to thought a 50 amp with a manual reset would work just fine. It was small and fairly inexpense.
I put the breaker switch up front just behind where I plug the trolling motor in. It is directly behind the panel on the red wire for the trolling motor plug in....I hope that makes sense.
Edited by Muskie Bob 4/25/2010 9:01 PM
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24 volt system info