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Originally Posted by Dakota
Merv what happened to the boat?
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When I put in in the morning I saw you out there, the starting battery was near dead and wouldn't start the motor. Jumped it with the trolling batteries and got going.
The starting battery was situated way up under the deck, so I removed my three trolling batteries to get at the starting battery, remounted some battery boxes and the starting battery so I could get at it easier to put a trickle charger on it while it's parked. Sad thing is, the four batteries I have in there are all Interstates, about six months old. I have had one deep cycle completely take a crap on me and now the starting battery doesn't seem to want to hold a charge. And this is with NOTHING hooked to that battery except the motor. I've checked the connection in the dark to see if there is a tiny spark when the cables are removed and replaced on the battery,which would indicate a small drainage from something, but there is nothing.
I now will put a charger on my starting battery every time I come in from fishing. Nothing worse than hearing your motor growl at you instead of starting. Maybe I should install a four bank charger instead of my current three banker I now use on my trolling batteries.
Got that problem taken care of but got careless when hooking the bait tank back to the batteries and accidentally connected the bait tank across the three trolling motor batteries (giving me thirty six volts instead of the twelve volts required). I normally hook it to ONE trolling motor battery but didn't watch what I was doing, working on it late in the day, in near darkness and tired. When I turned the bait tank recirculating pumps on, I fried one of them.
So I went out this morning and looked the situation over, found my mistake, corrected it, put in an old pump I had sitting on the shelf, wired it in and "Alles Gute"! (That's German for "It's all good")
"Bout ready to hit the GSP on Monday.
First fall Striper On old hickory
