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Tom N
Posted 11/9/2018 6:14 PM (#923118)
Subject: electronics and batteries




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With today's 12" -3 total electronics units draining from the starting battery, I have wired direct to battery. Strongest battery available , has anyone tried having 2 starting batteries with your electronics and starter ? Have 4 batteries already, 1 starting - 3 trolling. If so with great results please tell me how or why not. Thank YOU
Fishysam
Posted 11/9/2018 6:30 PM (#923119 - in reply to #923118)
Subject: Re: electronics and batteries




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I used to have issues till I got a size 31 batteries plus x2, it's amazing. But yes if you have room for another battery that is not uncommon
kap
Posted 11/9/2018 8:32 PM (#923127 - in reply to #923118)
Subject: Re: electronics and batteries




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Location: deephaven mn
walleye and bass guys are running 5 batteries but they are running their live wells all day also
I use 4 batteries but run a deep cycle (same as my trolling motor batteries) for starting and electronics
as mentioned get the big ones size 31

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Jerry Newman
Posted 11/12/2018 11:05 AM (#923241 - in reply to #923127)
Subject: Re: electronics and batteries




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kap - 11/9/2018 8:32 PM

walleye and bass guys are running 5 batteries but they are running their live wells all day also
I use 4 batteries but run a deep cycle (same as my trolling motor batteries) for starting and electronics
as mentioned get the big ones size 31

I


…muskie guys are running 5 batteries too! IMHO, 2 group 31 deep cycle batteries are going to be mandatory if you're running 3-12” screens. I'm on my second boat with that type configuration, and before that was running 3-10” screens on 2 group 31s.

Further; it's pretty common to have a battery isolator so the electronics/live well/ect cannot discharge the primary starting battery these days. However, I've been running the 2 house (starting) batteries hooked-up in series with only a few minor issues without an isolator, so I have just stayed with that configuration.

In 2017 I had a pesky intermittent electronics brownout when I would start my big motor, and although a battery isolator may have helped to solve the problem, my remedy was to simply not shut off the kicker motor until after I started the big motor… and then just replaced the entire boat at the end of the year.

I went a little overboard with heavier wires etc. while rigging the electronics in the new boat in the winter of 2017/8, and it performed almost flawlessly.


Edited by Jerry Newman 11/12/2018 11:06 AM
Tom N
Posted 11/12/2018 8:18 PM (#923316 - in reply to #923118)
Subject: Re: electronics and batteries




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Thanks, giong to 2- 31's with heavier wires.
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