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Jump starts are just batteries with built in chargers. Not much different than hooking up a lawn mower battery in parallel with your TM battery. Most jump packs use about an 18-22AH AGM battery, which is about what kids ride-on toys use. You can just buy the battery alone for 1/4-1/2 of what you pay for the jump starter, but these batteries are less than a quarter the capacity of a typical TM battery.
For the cost of a jump start pack or two, you could add a pair $75 group 24 deep-cycle batteries to the boat and get 4 times the additional run time.
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How do you hook up 4 batteries to a 24 volt? Can you show diagram of battery cables
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Take two batteries and hook them up + to + and - to -. Now treat that as a single battery and connect it in series with another 2 battery parallel combination like you normally would for 24V.Originally Posted by TowboatTroller
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May be my answer. I've got ever start on my new boat it came with them. They have 11/11 on sticker so probably about done. Starting battery says 08 lol fixing to drop some dollars!!! Batteries are fine but I know its any day now. You think 4 everstart group 29 be better than two group 30-31 215rca batteries
Seen some Agm at Cabelas they where cheap for what they where. Wished I'd got them they where
30 group 215 rca $179.00
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29 and 31 are the same size for all practical purposes. Different companies chose different groups for some reason.
The Cabela's 30 AGM is only 190 minute RC. Cabela's has been known to engage in "creative marketing" for those batteries in the past. 29 Everstart Maxx at about $100 gives you 205 minute RC as do most 29 or 31 series batteries. Exception is Deka conventional flooded cells which are only 185 minutes.
The only real standout trolling batteries IMO are the Everstart Maxx 29 which gives you a bunch of capacity at $100 and the Trojan SCS225 which gives you the biggest capacity but at a price north of $200. I favor the Everstarts because you can buy them in most places and get warranty service as well.
Shop by weight and you can't go wrong as long as you compare AGMs to AGMs and flooded cells to flooded cells. AGMs will always be heavier for the same capacity. It takes lead to make a deep-cycle and they can't cheat on that. The Everstart weighs 61lbs , the Deka 59lbs and the Trojan is 66lbs.
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This has been an interesting read. I didn't know about using the extra battery with a 24 volt TM.
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Thanks CatFan!
