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 Just bought my first boat and have a question
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04/13/15 01:39 AM
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dangolephil
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I just know that the motor will charge the cranking battery and that there is a switch that you can get that will detect when the cranking battery is charged and switch over to the other batteries. My question is how effective is this and would I still need a bank charger?
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Re: Just bought my first boat and have a question
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04/13/15 01:47 AM
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gary purdy
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You will still have to charge your trolling motor battery`s between trips.
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Re: Just bought my first boat and have a question
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04/14/15 04:28 PM
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CedarCreekWoody
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The switch is a VSR, or voltage sensing relay, and helps in topping off a battery during the trip, but doesn't replace a quality charger as Gary stated above.
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Re: Just bought my first boat and have a question
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04/16/15 01:27 PM
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Tommy Yetts
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Depending on which motor you have the outboard will never recharge a battery 100% unless you run it for a really long period at wot. On board chargers are the answer to complete battery charging and conditioning.
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Re: Just bought my first boat and have a question
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04/17/15 01:15 PM
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dangolephil
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Thanks guys for the advice I was pretty sure it wouldn't charge completely but I wanted to be sure
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