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Yeah it was a beatdown

Your kid needs to stay with him!

My kid was eating in Beverly Hills and ran into this guy. Talked to him a bit and wished him luck in the game tonight.

as a recovering machinist!that must make me a recovering welder!

As a recovering machinist, I can appreciate that. If the spec is 0.001 - 0.0015, then clearly the correct measurement is 0.00125, duh…

I just figured that it is easy enough to just get a 3 bank so when the boat is not in use I can keep all 3 batteries charged. I have not bough a charger yet, maybe I will give it some more thought. Edit: After thinking this over, with the size, weight, and heat output of the charger (as well as the cost) I think it makes sense to just buy a 2 bank charger, I have a smaller charger i can use on the starting battery when the boat is sitting at home. Forgive me, for i am a retired engineer and I have to obsess over everything...

Congrats on the motor! I think you’ll like it. I can’t say much on the charger location but I’ve seen them under the lid in back compartments and under center rod lockers. 160 degrees is more than I expected to hear. Curious why you’re opting for a 3 bank charger with a 24V trolling motor. Unless you don’t feel you be running you big motor enough to keep that battery up as well?

I did buy an Minnkota Ulterra, thanks for the recommendations. I had a bunch of Cabela"s bucks saved up, which helped. Now i need to get an onboard battery charger. Where do you guys mount these things in your boat? The manufacturer I am looking at {Noco genius) says tht their 3-bank charger will run at 160 degrees, seems like a lot of heat in an enclosed compartment? Thanks for any input on this.

You're very lucky a troop of Sea Monkey's didn't carry you away.

Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.

The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.

It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.

We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.

I've been out on the flats. It's like being on a different planet

I’ve only seen that from the air.

A quick pass through the Black Hills on the way home…

Great Salt lake…

Bighorn sheep at Lemoille canyon.

Wild horses in Sparks Nevada ad

Lake Tahoe

Donner lake near Donner pass in California

Redwoods near Big Sur California.

Power output is: amps x volts = watts If your charger is pushing 10amp at 12 volt: 12 x 10 = 120 watts. 2 banks = 240 watts. 240 watts / 120v at your outlet = 2 amp. Efficiency isn't 100% so it's gonna be more than 2 amp on your garage circuit, but maybe like 2.4 amps. I think.... It's been a while, LOL. Either way 20amps output on a charger for a 12v battery isn't the same as pulling 20amps off your garage circuit.

Wanderer, thank you. I did look at the breakers for my garage/outside outlets and they are 20 amp. I reached out to the company that makes dual pro chargers with the question and this is the reply I received.: Thank you for reaching out to us here at PCS. The Sportsman series charger, although rated ay 10 amps per bank, draws only 5 amps from AC when all banks are charging. As the Professional series which provides 15 amps per bank, has a maximum AC draw of 7.5 amps with all banks charging.

That’s an interesting point. While I understand how Amps work, I can’t say I’m fully versed in the draw of modern on board chargers. By modern code, outdoor and outbuilding outlets should be 20 Amp. If your outside or garage outlets are 15 Amp, they’re undersized. But that is quite possible if the garage was built before that code became enforced. With heavy use, you may not be able to keep up on daily charging without the 10 Amp per channel charger, however that’s with very aggressive use for consecutive days. On our June muskie trip we run up to 15 hours a day for up to 7 days on a 24V Ulterra and by mid week we’re starting to see the batteries not reach full charge. That’s a lot of bank running at nearly 2 mph on windy shores. We charge at a dock with up to 6 boats per dock plugged in - some with 36 volt systems. Now I’m not sure if all the outlets are on a dedicated circuit but I’m betting they aren’t. But they’re all 20A outlets with a lot of draw on them. At max draw, they’re not keeping up but also not tripping the breakers. What I’m saying, without a technical review is: you’re probably fine either way. You probably won’t tax your batteries so much that they can’t recover on a 5 Amp per channel overnight charge and a 10Amp per channel charger probably won’t be too much to plug into your 15A outlet - if it really is a 15A. If you’re sure, you’re sure, but I would double check if you’re not 100%.