Jon Boat battery question

nobass · 04-01-13, 07:05 PM

have you seen those solar chargers . i am not real familar with them but you may only need one battary and charge as you fish

MallenManson · 04-01-13, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by nobass

have you seen those solar chargers . i am not real familar with them but you may only need one battary and charge as you fish

I've seen em from afar

I've been considering one for quite some time.
A small one would have been ideal for the FF on the yak

kennethdaysale · 04-01-13, 07:33 PM

Mallen you're looking at 100+ lbs no matter how you cut it. Many people wire 2 batterys parallel and run troller and sonar off the same. If you decide to run the sonar on a seperate battery you could move it up front to even out the weight. As far as charging definately spring for a 3 phase Microprocessor charger and hook the pos. to one battery and the neg. to the other battery. Depth finders really don't draw many amps compared to a TM and unless your worried about interference I'd just run them both together. In over 20 years of doing it that way only once did I have a finder act crazy when the TM was on high.
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ps we're going to need pics of the finished mac daddy jon.

MallenManson · 04-01-13, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by kennethdaysale

Mallen you're looking at 100+ lbs no matter how you cut it. Many people wire 2 batterys parallel and run troller and sonar off the same. If you decide to run the sonar on a seperate battery you could move it up front to even out the weight. As far as charging definately spring for a 3 phase Microprocessor charger and hook the pos. to one battery and the neg. to the other battery. Depth finders really don't draw many amps compared to a TM and unless your worried about interference I'd just run them both together. In over 20 years of doing it that way only once did I have a finder act crazy when the TM was on high.
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ps we're going to need pics of the finished mac daddy jon.

Thanks Ken!
Yeah, I'm definitely leery of the weight.
I'll give it a test run with one battery once the ice is gone, and go from there.

And you just KNOW I'm gonna have some boat pics

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nobass BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: clarksville, tn, Posts: 1,690	have you seen those solar chargers . i am not real familar with them but you may only need one battary and charge as you fish __________________ the only easy day was yesterday

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kennethdaysale BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: rock hill, sc Posts: 2,315	Mallen you're looking at 100+ lbs no matter how you cut it. Many people wire 2 batterys parallel and run troller and sonar off the same. If you decide to run the sonar on a seperate battery you could move it up front to even out the weight. As far as charging definately spring for a 3 phase Microprocessor charger and hook the pos. to one battery and the neg. to the other battery. Depth finders really don't draw many amps compared to a TM and unless your worried about interference I'd just run them both together. In over 20 years of doing it that way only once did I have a finder act crazy when the TM was on high. ps we're going to need pics of the finished mac daddy jon. __________________ Sometimes you gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

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