RandyAustinFishing
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I run a single 24V 60 ah with an onboard charger. It has been great. I am considering upgrading to a single 36V 100 ah since the new Ultrex Quest can do 24 or 36 V.
I have fished 3 days and not gone below 40%.
Lithium Batteries
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I have fished 3 days and not gone below 40%.
Thanks for all the feedback on lithium batteries. Thought I would do an update to where I'm at with this change.
This all started when I decided to upgrade my trolling motor to a new Ulterra self-deploy. I knew my batteries were in need of an upgrade as well which were two group 31 Sears Die Hard AGM's that were nine years old. Can't complain about getting nine years but one was no longer holding it's charge to well and I really wanted longer run time that the lithium's offered. I settled on two group 27 Power Queen 125 Amp hour models. It now seems apparent to me after having to try and communicate with all the different brands from China (Li Time, Redodo, Power Queen) that there all the same company just different names for some reason. The one problem I'm having if anyone has advise on is I had heard of the hassle of having to charge your batteries separately a couple times a year to keep them in balance so I saw this device called a balancer that you could install that would monitor that and you hook to each battery and it would do that for you. The problem is that when I go to hook up the last lead of the four leads it goes to a dead short and the 4th of July happens. The balancer is made by Redodo and finally a rep called me but because of the language difference he was really hard to understand. I think he was trying to say you can't run balancers on lithium batteries, but he also kept saying we need to figure out what's wrong with your balancer. More confused than ever now. Does anyone have any experience with these balancers? Just wondering if it's a bad balancer or if maybe you can't run them with lithium. I can hook everything else up the charger, trolling motor, jumper without any issues. Looking forward to getting the rig on the water to try out the new motor and batteries. The one thing that really sucks is I can't even test to see if the motor works until it's in the water because there isn't room for it to self-deploy on the trailer.
All suggestions are apricated. Howard.
This all started when I decided to upgrade my trolling motor to a new Ulterra self-deploy. I knew my batteries were in need of an upgrade as well which were two group 31 Sears Die Hard AGM's that were nine years old. Can't complain about getting nine years but one was no longer holding it's charge to well and I really wanted longer run time that the lithium's offered. I settled on two group 27 Power Queen 125 Amp hour models. It now seems apparent to me after having to try and communicate with all the different brands from China (Li Time, Redodo, Power Queen) that there all the same company just different names for some reason. The one problem I'm having if anyone has advise on is I had heard of the hassle of having to charge your batteries separately a couple times a year to keep them in balance so I saw this device called a balancer that you could install that would monitor that and you hook to each battery and it would do that for you. The problem is that when I go to hook up the last lead of the four leads it goes to a dead short and the 4th of July happens. The balancer is made by Redodo and finally a rep called me but because of the language difference he was really hard to understand. I think he was trying to say you can't run balancers on lithium batteries, but he also kept saying we need to figure out what's wrong with your balancer. More confused than ever now. Does anyone have any experience with these balancers? Just wondering if it's a bad balancer or if maybe you can't run them with lithium. I can hook everything else up the charger, trolling motor, jumper without any issues. Looking forward to getting the rig on the water to try out the new motor and batteries. The one thing that really sucks is I can't even test to see if the motor works until it's in the water because there isn't room for it to self-deploy on the trailer.
All suggestions are apricated. Howard.
Littlesaltwash
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I have two 12volt 200 AH for my 24/36 ultrex. I use a Victron balancer ($50) between the two and it does what it is supposed to do. It’s only about 4 inches square and fits well inside my electrical panel to monitor. When at home I have an Aims battery charger the automatically recognizes whether the battery system is 12 or 24. It also allows you to set how many amps you want charging