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[QUOTE]Mojo1269 - 10/28/2016  1:21 PM

[QUOTE]Musky Pete - 10/28/2016  12:34 PM

My Humminbird 959 is hooked up to the starter battery and  a couple times after running the Humminbird for a couple hours, the started battery has drained to the point where my 150 hp E-Tech will not start.  I had the battery checked and they said it was OK, only 1 yr. old.  Can a depth finder drain the battery that much??? :([/QUOTE]

If you have an appropriately sized battery for your boat you should be able to run a couple of units all day with out compromising your battery.  In late fall when its cold and your batteries take more of a beating its never a bad idea to fire the engine up for 10 minutes every now and then if you are not making long runs from spot to spot.  A good friend just had a one year old starting battery crap out in his boat yesterday, it happens.  I had a mechanic friend explain it it to me like this once; "batteries are a crap shoot.  Sometimes you get a good one, sometimes a bad one.  Regardless of price there is not much you can do to prevent getting a bad one"...[/QUOTE]

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Posted 10/28/2016 1:21 PM (#834951 - in reply to #834946)
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Musky Pete - 10/28/2016 12:34 PM

My Humminbird 959 is hooked up to the starter battery and a couple times after running the Humminbird for a couple hours, the started battery has drained to the point where my 150 hp E-Tech will not start. I had the battery checked and they said it was OK, only 1 yr. old. Can a depth finder drain the battery that much??? :(

If you have an appropriately sized battery for your boat you should be able to run a couple of units all day with out compromising your battery. In late fall when its cold and your batteries take more of a beating its never a bad idea to fire the engine up for 10 minutes every now and then if you are not making long runs from spot to spot. A good friend just had a one year old starting battery crap out in his boat yesterday, it happens. I had a mechanic friend explain it it to me like this once; "batteries are a crap shoot. Sometimes you get a good one, sometimes a bad one. Regardless of price there is not much you can do to prevent getting a bad one"...