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| I have an older boat 1991 and I'm wiring a 24v tripping motor to the bow of it and I had my locator on the front spliced into the positive lead of the 12v system. Can I still splice into it now even if its a 24v system now? |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | As long as you have the power leads for the locator on the same battery you are fine, either battery will do. When in doubt measure the volts first and connect later, otherwise you might have a toaster instead of a locator. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
I would think to be safe, I would run a dedicated wire set from your depth finder to one of the two batteries. I would assume you would run a fuse in the positive line.
With the positive spliced in, I'm not sure if you can just run a dedicated negative lead to one battery...You might, though, as the negative would only allow 12 volts to run.
I believe option 1 to be a bit better as it totally isolates the TM current from the depth finder current.
Steve |
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| So since I have the 2 batteries for the 24v system in series should I run the wire to the starting battery? I do have a fuse in the positive lead for the locator |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
If you run to the starting battery, you will totally isolate the locator from the trolling motor, which is not a bad thing. There have been experiences some people have had where they ran into interference issues when they hooked up their locator to the trolling motor batteries.
Steve
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| toothycritter88 - 3/14/2012 10:38 AM
So since I have the 2 batteries for the 24v system in series should I run the wire to the starting battery? I do have a fuse in the positive lead for the locator
Yes. |
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| That and when you drain your trolling motor batteries, you wont have to worry about the locator not working or giving you a low voltage warning. I would fuse the positive lead, but that is just the electrical engineer in me speaking. |
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| i am putting a fuse inline. what size fuse would you reccomend? |
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| Depends on what kind of locator you have and what size wiring you are running to the locator. The fuse is mostly there to protect from overloading your wiring.. but I would say a 10A would be more than enough. |
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24v trolling motor wiring question