Re: Help with trolling motor battery charging.
sorry to reply so late. i have access to 2 dynatrak's, 1982 & 85 models. my 82 wiring was cut/hacked and messed up when i got my boat, so when i rewired most of it, i didn't use that 3 pos rocker. i asked my pop about his, since he bought the 85 new. but he changed the wiring also.<br /><br />i don't have a schematic, but from the info i got on the labels, that switch is horizontal, with (left to right):<br />12/24 run<br />12 run<br />12 x 2 charge<br />he seems to remember that the female plug used to connect the TM (trolling motor) is also used to charge the battery. the cabling up front is separate from the cranking battery cabling, so the TM battery will not discharge the cranking battery (or get charged from motor when running)<br /><br />since my wires to the switch were cut, i pulled it out to run depthfinder cabling thru it. <br /><br />but my best guess would be that the switch was mainly used to switch a 24volt 2 bank battery connection from serial-to-parallel
so a common 12v charger could be used to charge them <br /><br />hope that helps a little....<br /><br />PS. if you are running a 12v TM with original cabling, you should be able to ignore the switch. just either put the same male TM plug on charger and charge battery thru the female plug up front or go the ez'r route - lift the lid on battery compartment and clip charger directly to battery.<br /><br />feel free to ask more questions, but you might want to post it under the "boat questions" forum for more responses.
