Trolling motor battery question for you guys

I just bought a new battery last year for my trolling motor, but I am wanting to get a longer lasting one. the one I have now is a Walmart one. I have read and I see mention of AGM and then 27's, 31's and optima. My question is this, my trolling motor is the PDV2 with iPilot 12volt. What would be a good battery for my case ? I have a separate battery for cranking the motor, so this will be solely for the trolling motor and another thing is being able to find a good battery up here in the sticks :)


thanks

m

If ya gonna use it for pullin cranks ya best get two of them and tie them together!

2 group 27's or 31's tied together.

Group 31 is the way to go if you have enough room for that size. Best thing would be two group 31's if you going to be pulling cranks a lot. Wire them in paralell for 12 volts.

ahhhh hadnt thought of 2 instead of one, okay what battery u guys suggest that will hold up to be recharged alot ? local parts store has optima and I just looked at the AGM at cablelas

m

I use 2 group 27's tied in paralell and get 6-7 hrs pulling cranks

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Originally Posted by maachuu

ahhhh hadnt thought of 2 instead of one, okay what battery u guys suggest that will hold up to be recharged alot ? local parts store has optima and I just looked at the AGM at cablelas

m

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Go to your local NAPA store and get two Deep Cycle group 31's....NAPA batteries are good, Delco's are good ones also.

if you can spare the money just get you a 24v trolling motor and 2 brand new batterys

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Originally Posted by jiggshooter

if you can spare the money just get you a 24v trolling motor and 2 brand new batterys

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well cant really spare the money (but mad money could show up) but the main thing is that I just bought this trolling motor last year

Or do like me. Ima feed Major a heck of a meal plus a couple drinks of Belezean Rum as payoff to helping me install it. LOL Guess I gotta do more than burgers this time since I'm putting him to work though. LOL have to do some HOT TUB steaks