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I just purchased a deep cycle battery that has 195 AH to run all my electronics along with a Minn Kota MK210 battery charger that charges two batteries at the same time. The charger puts out 5 amps to each battery. I wonder if I can hook up both sets of charging leads to one battery to get 10 volts of charge at one time into the new battery and not hurt anything.
I would think so. I don't know about the MK chargers but I do know you can do it on the Pro Mariner chargers.
If you have 2 batteries hooked up in parallel aren't you already (in a sense) doing it anyway?
That's is the way I see itQuote:
Originally Posted by crappiemax
I would not do it unless someone in a technical capacity at MK said it was ok. You could smoke it.
Curious about the battery you bought, 195 Ah sounds like a heck of a lot to me.
Your only going to get max 5 amps out of each lead. It will not double to 10. Plus you have the chance of the circuits fighting each other and it might not perform at all or burn something up. Just tape up leads on one side and let it go. I have a 2 bank dual pro and one of their tech guys told me to do it that way.
Be careful!
Go for it.
What could go wrong?
No pain, no gain.
Here, hold my beer.
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5+5=10 but 5 amp output on one set of leads + 5 amp output from another set of leads = 5 amps
I GOT THIS OFF OF THE IBOATS WEBSITE.
I can't find it right now but I've read this same thing on a manufactures website.
this is what it says on website.
Q. Can I connect the charger to only one battery? What do I do with the unused leads or terminals?
A. If you are using a waterproof charger and want to charge 1 battery on a 2 bank charger, you will need to connect both leads on that one battery. If you are charging 1 or 2 batteries with a 3 bank charger, you will need to connect all the leads on the 1 or 2 batteries. At no time should the charger be run without all the leads being connected to a battery(s).
I had a 3 bank charger and was going to use it on 2 batteries. It was 3/15 charger.
Call Minn Kota and ask them, I'd be curious what they have to say.
I'm not Minn Kota but I'm sure the reason, or at least part of the reason is so you don't have wires laying around with voltage on them. When 12 volt power grounds out, it burns up stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiemax
I'm sure that's why they say to hook all the wires up. Actually if it's a 10 amp charger (5/5), all 10 amps will go to the 1 battery.Quote:
Originally Posted by FurFlyin
I bought the battery at Batteries Plus Bulbs for $269.00.Quote:
Originally Posted by jawjatek
I agree with Crappiemax's post. I've read in a couple different charger instructions that if all leads are not connected to a battery, the charger will sense a bad battery and show an alarm.
I spoke with Minn Kota tech and was told I could hook one lead to the battery, but was told not to hook the other lead up to the same battery, just to tape it up.
Thanks for the update