Bow mounted sonar question

[Fish6095]

With the duck hunting season long gone my mind is turning to bass fishing. Since this year I will be fishing more tournaments I think a bow mounted sonar is crucial. So my question is can I wire the depthfinder to the same battery I have my trolling motor wired to or do i have to get another battry all together to wire the depthfinder to?

Comments appreciated

[Deitz Dittrich]

Fish-

You can wire it to that battery, but its not a good idea. You will get feedback from the trolling moter if you wire it direct, and that will cause you problems! I would suggest you run wire back to your starting battery, the eletronics will not draw enough power to cause any problems that way.

Good luck and post questions any time!

[ikeslayer]

fish - i made the mistake of hooking it up to my trolling battery last year and it worked fine if you didn't want to use your trolling motor. you get a lot of interference so deitz is right on here. ike

[Mark Christianson]

I just use my gelcell battery from my winter set up for my front graph.

The downside is that you need to remember to charge it periodically.