Thread: Battery Question

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

If room for an extra battery is a problem, I would suggest getting a perko switch that has an extra lead and a Jump position coming off of it. All you have to do then is turn the switch to jump and transfer all of your cranking and electronics stuff to one of your existing Trolling batteries to start your engine and run the electronics. After starting the engine, I switch mine back to the Run position on the Perko to charge the cranking battery up some while running. That’s how all of the Ranger Glass Boats are setup now. If you have room, just run another battery parallel with the cranker and that should keep you going all day.


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I thought about hooking in parallel. If I do that, would that require a single bank or dual bank charger?


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A single bank will charge two batterys in parallel...it just takes twice as long.

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Originally Posted by "G"

A single bank will charge two batterys in parallel...it just takes twice as long.

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Thanks G. Always so helpful!!!


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I run dual bank on my batts that are in parallel, been running mine that way for a couple years now and it works great

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Originally Posted by JTMavs

G- I have had a problem getting the battery to last a Day if I keep electronics on all day. Had to get a jump last fall. Hate to get stuck in a bad situation if it happens and nobody around!


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Just carry an extra battery and jumper cables.

Carry a 20.00 set of jumper cables, if your cranking battery gets weak, jump start off trolling batteries. And if someone else is dead on the water, you can use the jumper cables to get them cranking again.


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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

I run dual bank on my batts that are in parallel, been running mine that way for a couple years now and it works great

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Just hook up each bank to each battery individually?


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Hook your batterys up in parallel....then connect one bank to one battery then hook the other bank to the second battery.

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