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Battery trouble #15219267 10/16/24 03:03 PM
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What are people running for lithium electronic/starting battery. Im running 1 agm battery now but with 4 garmin graphs, Force footpedal, Black box, Network box and Nav lights, livewell, etc i cant get the battery to hold its voltage well at all. (just bought the battery last weekednd). I just spent bought the noco 3 bank charger earlier this summer so cant afford to get a new charger with a 4th battery just for electronics. Will a lithium battery power all that? also have seen people using Milwaukee batterys for there garmins, do people like that too? Thanks all.

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I have all that and more on my Ionic 125ah. I have yet to run it below 50% during an 8-hour tournament. Last weekend was a torture test. Two livewells. One of them leaks, so I had the fill pump running constant for 6 hours(which causes an overfill and makes the auto bilge pump come on and off while doing it) all the while I had recirculating and fill pumps going on timers for the other livewell.so, 5 pumps running of and on all day. I also ran four Lowrance 12’s, a Sonic hub 2 for music, an Active Target 2, and lights early…and several deployments of the power poles. Still above 50% and never below 13 volts

Buy once cry once. But it is the best money can buy IMO.


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Originally Posted by SteezMacQueen
I have all that and more on my Ionic 125ah. I have yet to run it below 50% during an 8-hour tournament. Last weekend was a torture test. Two livewells. One of them leaks, so I had the fill pump running constant for 6 hours(which causes an overfill and makes the auto bilge pump come on and off while doing it) all the while I had recirculating and fill pumps going on timers for the other livewell.so, 5 pumps running of and on all day. I also ran four Lowrance 12’s, a Sonic hub 2 for music, an Active Target 2, and lights early…and several deployments of the power poles. Still above 50% and never below 13 volts

Buy once cry once. But it is the best money can buy IMO.


Same here but with 2 Helix 12's, a Helix 15 with Mega 360 and a Garmin 1222 with livescope. Usually in the low to mid 50% range at end of day. Been 3 years since I went all in on lithium and they still blow my mind.

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Originally Posted by SteezMacQueen
I have all that and more on my Ionic 125ah. I have yet to run it below 50% during an 8-hour tournament. Last weekend was a torture test. Two livewells. One of them leaks, so I had the fill pump running constant for 6 hours(which causes an overfill and makes the auto bilge pump come on and off while doing it) all the while I had recirculating and fill pumps going on timers for the other livewell.so, 5 pumps running of and on all day. I also ran four Lowrance 12’s, a Sonic hub 2 for music, an Active Target 2, and lights early…and several deployments of the power poles. Still above 50% and never below 13 volts

Buy once cry once. But it is the best money can buy IMO.

100% ^This!

My new AGM battery would not last the whole day, especially if I managed to catch a fish early and started running the areators all day. I got tired of worrying everytime I went out "will my boat start at 2pm" . Replaced it with a Monster Lithium and as the other guys have said, I can run the live well, sonic hub, powerpoles, livescope, lowrance HDS Carbon 9 and HDS Carbon 16, Garmin etc and 67% was the lowest its been. Swapped out the three lead acid TM batteries with monster lithiums and I can run the ultrex quest all day in the wind and never seen lower than 72%.

If you make the move to lithium might I suggest that you shell out a little more for the ones that have bluetooth. Being able to check the status with your phone is freakin awesome. Just my opinion.


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Re: Battery trouble [Re: HPwillmabus] #15225802 10/24/24 01:48 PM
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I run my two Helix graphs from a 50ah wheelchair battery. I just like to keep my graphs isolated form everything else.


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