I have an on board charger for my trolling batteries. For my starting battery I charge it, when needed, with an "automatic battery charger" that's a popular brand/style. Here's the problem. It has a switch for Regular and Deep Cycle. When I try to charge on Regular it will show the battery is fully charged after about 1-5 minutes (even though it's run down below 50% by using a different battery tester and I know it's not fully charged). If I switch it to Deep Cycle it then seems to properly charge the battery. Is there any reason this happens or any problem in charging the starting battery under Deep Cycle? The tester used to work under Regular and about two years ago started doing this. Thanks for any help.
Dang, new content and now answers.
First, congrats on the new boat!
My recommendation is to get the most thrust you can in 24V, assuming a boat that size isn’t running 36V. 80 might be tops? I’m partial to MinnKota.
How do you plan to use the trolling motor is an important question too.
All weather or just nice weather?
Casting a lot or bait dragging?
Bobber or panfish fishing?
Spot lock? Networked with depth finders? What brand of depth finders?
We have bought a new boat, which we will be picking up this spring. It is an Alumacraft Competitor 165 sport with a 90 horse Yamaha
motor. I will be buying and installing a trolling motor, wondering if I can get some recommendations on what pound thrust I will
want for this boat? Also, I will be selling my old boat, is there a good way to determine the value on an older boat ( mid-80's with a 75 horse 2-stroke
Mariner motor) I will appreciate any help with these questions.
I went ahead and watched some of the MLF coverage. Wheeler didn’t make the cut but the bigger story was the Poche/Avera fallout.
Kinda funny listening to both sides of the story and putting together the scenario, reading between the lines.
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I have an on board charger for my trolling batteries. For my starting battery I charge it, when needed, with an "automatic battery charger" that's a popular brand/style. Here's the problem. It has a switch for Regular and Deep Cycle. When I try to charge on Regular it will show the battery is fully charged after about 1-5 minutes (even though it's run down below 50% by using a different battery tester and I know it's not fully charged). If I switch it to Deep Cycle it then seems to properly charge the battery. Is there any reason this happens or any problem in charging the starting battery under Deep Cycle? The tester used to work under Regular and about two years ago started doing this. Thanks for any help.
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