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Ok, on my Ranger I have 4 wires going to the back of the boat for the trolling motor. A red/black and an orange/white. My question is how should the 2 sets of wires be connected to the batteries to get 24 volts to the trolling motor? My trolling motor doesn't seem to have the power I think it should or the lasting power. Thanks for the help in advance.
Mike
If I'm not mistaken, 24v is on two wires. Orange white may be spare or elec (12v). Pos. to neg on batteries. Then hook red wire to one etmpy side of battery and black to other battery empty. The TM completes the cicuit.
So what you're saying is use the black/red and disregard the orange/white, red to positive of one battery, black to negative of other battery and then a jumper between the other pos/neg?
Exactly what trolling motor do you have? You may have a 12/24 system and it gets hooked up differently. Don't wire the batteries in series until you are sure.
Exactly what Barnacle Bill said. Do otherwise and you could do some serious damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill
It's a straight 24 volt Motorguide
OK, then you want to wire the batteries in series. You only need 2 of those wires if the are at least 8 gauge. If smaller you could double them up.
Any idea what the purpose is of the other 2 wires? Thank you by the way.
On some boats, two 12v circuits are carried to the bow, and the series connection is made in the plug. I had an xpress that was wired that way.
Need details on the plug as rockmike stated before we can determine how to wire the batteries. All four wires will be used if the series connection is made in the plug.
Yeah, Panman is right. Those wires may have been used for a 12/24 trolling motor at one time. It doesn't make sense to wire a boat that way for a straight 24V system as thats just unneccessary cost.
If the wire size of the individual circuits is big enough, I don't see any reason you couldn't abandon one circuit and just run a 24v circuit, or just double the wires and run 24v. I think they doubled these circuits to accomodate the old 12/24v trolling motors.
That will also work as long as the plug is connected correctly but I think the wire should be 6 gauge.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockmike
Here's a picture of the plug and how the wires are connected, hope this helps.Attachment 46622Attachment 46622
Need to see the other half of the plug to be sure. It appears there are two negative (ground) wires and two positive leads. The series connection will be in the other half of the plug.Quote:
Originally Posted by pvasst1
Ok, I'll go take a pic and be right back.
Is this what you're needing to see?
Also when I bought this boat it only had a 12v trolling motor on it and the only wires that were hooked to the battery were the red and black.
Disconnect the orange and white wires at both ends and tie them off out of the way. You do not need them. Now wire your batteries in series like I showed you and you are good to go.
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill
Thanks fellas! I appreciate the help.
One more quick question I forgot about. I have a 3 bank 5 amp per bank on board charger, I have 1 bank to the starting battery and 1 bank to each of the trolling motor batteries. My question is with the batteries hooked up in series is it ok to have a bank going to each battery?
no problem i have mine hooked that way
Thanks speck chaser, didn't see what it would matter but I've been wrong before.