Thread: battery charging

I've got a on board charger on my boat but I don't use it because I don't trust them I've got a charger I got at Walmart for bout $50.00 it's digital works fine


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Short draw, i dont think hooking up a maintainer type charger in addition would help you. Bigger charger, or smaller batteries. Ie drop from a 27 series to 24 series. you could always sell your current charger and put that money towards a bigger one. Check the for sale thread on this site, or bass boat central.com. Craigslist is another option.
Mac crappie, why dont you trust them? I was leary when i first mounted mine. Was checkin it all the time. Now i get home from fishin, plug it in, walk away. Check water level once a month. Havent had any problems.

I just don't because mine wasn't working properly when it came from the factory and it was a new boat i could plug it in leave it all day and check the battery and it wasn't charged


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by shortdraw

I have a on board charger for my trolling motor batteries I plug in at night after using them each day. Sometimes it takes longer than overnight to charge them up fully. Instead of cutting into the fishing day waiting on it to charge completely can I hook another charger to them at the same time? If so how would I hook it up to do both batteries? The charger I have is not a real powerful one more of a maintainer. I just don't want to have to spend the money right now on a bigger charger. Thanks

Need more info. Are you straight 12 or 24? Is your on board a 2 bank or single bank? In certain situations you could make it work. Depends on your setup.

24v two bank charger just was curious as I have a portable charger didn't if that could be done just after long day of hard use the on board doesn't seem to get them charged up by early morning granted I don't have biggest one either. Didn't know much about them at the time I bought it. I've had no issues with it at all

Understand. Here is what I would try. Take both leads from your onboard charger and hook to one battery. Then hook the other charger to the other battery. You don't have to but I would suggest unhooking the jumper between the 2 batteries while charging just because. When you hook a charger to the positive and the negative it only see's 12 volt battery in your set up.

How many amps per bank? Less than 10 amps will take considerably longer to come to full charge.

I'm thinking it's like four amps per bank I realize I bought the wrong size but just was wondering if I could put a portable charger on it night when I'm at the lake if it would help speed things up. During the week it's no big just on weekends mainly was why I was asking...