marine battery charging?
i have a 14 jon boat that i use to fish with. i have one battery that runs my trolling motor and plan to run a depth finder and lights off of. a few resivours i fish do not permit gas motors. so there for i am limited to my time fishing due to battery power. i always charge my battery but i was wondering if there was anything out there or any way i could charge it while i used it on the water.
sorry, these guys are right -- the solar panels won't even begin to think about trying to keep up with the trolling motor consumption.
But here's what to do: get another battery, identical to the first, hook 'em together positive-to-positive and negative-to-negative. This will give you the combined amp-hours at 12V.
Actually you'll get more run time than that, since your available AH increase when discharging at a slower pace.
It won't be ideal because of the age difference in the batteries -- the weaker battery will drag the stronger one down to its level. If you could trade your old one in and get two same-age identical batteries it would be better.
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