jhawkinsvalrico
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I am having a 19 ft. flats boat built which will be powered by a 115 Mercury. I'm planning to put a Minn Kota Riptide RT80 on the boat. This is a 24 volt motor, so I am thinking about adding two 12 volt batteries using a Yandina combiner 100 and trollbridge 24 combiner so that I can charge all three batteries from the engine's generator. I have a couple of questions that I hoped I could get answered in this forum.
1. I am seeking trolling motor battery recommendations. What should I be considering?
2. Should I buy AGM batteries or not? Since the Yandina setup allows me to charge my trolling motor batteries off the engine's generator, can AGM batteries be charged safely off the generator? I've encountered a number of articles stating that you need to charge AGM batteries off of chargers designed to charge AGM batteries. Does this apply to the generator? Will charging AGM batteries off the generator shorten the battery's life span?
3. Taking the generator /AGM question one step further. If I can safely charge AGM batteries off of the generator, does it matter if the starting battery is not an AGM battery? I ask this because a feature of the Yandina setup is that I can attach an external charger to the starting battery and the Yandina will cycle charging through all three batteries until all three are charged. Again, going back to the 'you need an AGM charger to charge AGM batteries' statements that I've encountered, I am led to believe that I need to use all AGM batteries. That's unless I can find a charger smart enough to sense the battery type (I don't know if they exist).
Again, any advice I can get is appreciated - especially from those who might be using a similar setup.
Regards and Thanks,
John Hawkins.
1. I am seeking trolling motor battery recommendations. What should I be considering?
2. Should I buy AGM batteries or not? Since the Yandina setup allows me to charge my trolling motor batteries off the engine's generator, can AGM batteries be charged safely off the generator? I've encountered a number of articles stating that you need to charge AGM batteries off of chargers designed to charge AGM batteries. Does this apply to the generator? Will charging AGM batteries off the generator shorten the battery's life span?
3. Taking the generator /AGM question one step further. If I can safely charge AGM batteries off of the generator, does it matter if the starting battery is not an AGM battery? I ask this because a feature of the Yandina setup is that I can attach an external charger to the starting battery and the Yandina will cycle charging through all three batteries until all three are charged. Again, going back to the 'you need an AGM charger to charge AGM batteries' statements that I've encountered, I am led to believe that I need to use all AGM batteries. That's unless I can find a charger smart enough to sense the battery type (I don't know if they exist).
Again, any advice I can get is appreciated - especially from those who might be using a similar setup.
Regards and Thanks,
John Hawkins.
