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How can I extend my power cable? Does anybody sale these? I need at least 18feet of extension...I tried wiring it to my battery up front that's on the trolling motor but got a lot of interference today so now I want to try to wire it to my cranking battery which is in the back of the boat...any help?
Bird sells one think it is 20 ft. Will see if I can find a link
I was wrong. Looks like only 6 ft I could find. You can extend it yourself. This is what I usually do. Get a black wire and red wire about 3 ft longer than you need. Crimp on a ring eye to black wire, get a rubber sealed fuse holde with the little cap that takes a blade fuse, put a ring eye on one end to fit battery, then use proper sized crimp fitting to attach red wire to other side of fuse holder. Put the two ring eyes to together and about a foot up from that use electrical tape to hold the two wires tight. Then spread the 2 wires and attach them over something to hold them in place ( I used the handle on my boat winch ) back off to the other end of wires end take the slack out. I just do it by hand and just wrap them one over the other until you get them twisted out close to your hands. Then I pinch them together and hold in place with a plastic wire tie or electrical tape. You can also use the wire tie at the end and clam them in drill to spin. This gives you what is called a twisted pair and is designed to reduce interference. Tape the ends and use a string, or snake to pull them from rear to front. Then attach your plug to these wires with good crimp connectors. If you are familiar with heat shrink you can get some that fits over the connectors install it on cable wires before crimping then slide over and heat to seal. Sometimes I just paint with liquid electrical tape and once it dries just wrap good with electrical tape. Hopes this helps and sorry it's so long.