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| CnR_Angler - 6/5/2013 2:27 PM
That's an interesting twist. I hadn't thought about them actually draining the battery while they were turned off.
I'm not much of an electrician, if at all...is it just an inline switch? Cut the wire and install it? Any additional info you have would be appreciated.
Also interested what others thoughts are about battery draining even with the units off.
Unless you have an external antenna, or an NMEA 2000 Backbone setup, there should be no drain on your batteries when your sonars are turned off. If you do have either of these, then look at pages 22 and 23 of the install manual Al provided. You'll need to switch the power to the network.
I always have my starting battery on a bank of my onboard charger, and charge them after every use. Especially important when you're runnin and gunnin while muskie fishning. The big motor doesn't run enough to charge the battery fully. |
