Thread: Converting to 24 volts

Originally Posted by cray

Coach, hook a size 6 gage wire positive to positive and neg to neg. That gives you just 12 volts from 2 batteries. Hook troller to positive and neg of same battery. Batteries really need to be pretty close in size and age. But it will really extend run time without the hassle of changing battery out on the lake.

I ran a 12 volt minn kota powerdrive ipilot for 2 years with 2 batteries wired parallel , but what I did and it will give you a better run time a less drainage on the batteries was used both batteries by hooking the trolling motor positive to battery A and the trolling motor negative to battery B,
now it looks like one big 12volt battery to the trolling motor !!! and like Speck said hook the charger up positive battery A and negative to battery B now you are charging both batteries at the same time and rate !!!

Well.....I'm glad I opened that bag of worms. I have learned a BUNCH...thanks guys. Yawl the best ever!!