Marine Batteries
 

I need some new batteries. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Optima blue top 6 pack marine batteries all I got and all I need

Where do you get them at?

Big Mommas. S & S batteries in Baton Rouge on Jefferson Hwy.

They have them at autozone for $230 a piece. Is that what you guys payed for them or do you know some where cheaper?

There are no cheap Optima batteries. But they are fantastic batteries.
AGM batteries will outlast any lead/acid battery, probably by double the
life span, but they cost more.
What ever you do, buy a good brand. I have bought cheap batteries for
my big boat and had to pay again for a good one.
I HATE Walmart. But I got stuck in Kenner with a dead battery on my truck
and bought new ones from the Super Walmart at 4 am in the morning.
It lasted 7 years before finally starting to get weak. They were the yeller
ones.

i like my interstate batteries. my starting battery is going on 4 years strong, i just had to change one of my trolling batteries a few weeks ago, its was in my boat for 3 years the other is still going !

If you have 2 trolling batteries, you should change them out at the same time.
If you don't, the older weaker one can cause the charger to overcharge the
new one.

i didn't know that! will that happen if they get charged one by one ?

I do have 2 and I plan on changing both of them. The ones I have now were on charge for 2 days and never took a full charge. Well i went fishing Friday and they lasted a whole 30 minutes. I bought my boat new in May of 2008 and that is the batteries that came with it. That is my first boat so I have never purchased marine batteries before. Thanks for the input guys.

i was told to never store ur batteries not fully charged, charged them as soon as u get home or where ever u store ur boat. that is the first thing i do when i get home. always check ur water!

No, I thought your trolling motor batteries would be charged together.
Most trolling motors are connected in series or in parallel. Never seen
a set of batteries not charged together.

When you said you had to change one of your trolling motor batteries and the other is still going strong, I thought they would be connected. I never
seen a set up where the batteries are not connected.

Thats where i have been screwing up. I don't ever charge the batteries untill I go fishing. Thanks for that advice man

Mine are charged together. When I pick up my new ones I'm going to have the old ones tested to see if one is stronger than the other.

i have seen them like that before but mine r in series. i guess what im trying to say is that if i were to disconnect them a charge them?
ok, like they r right now in a series. i have a 3 bank on board charger my trolling batteries each have there own bank, each battery should be getting each there own charge right ? 24 volt one bank goes to starting battery

I don't think you can charge a 24 volt bank seperately. Unless you have a disconnect switch and charge them at 12 volts each.

Ive been using the wally world batteries for a while now. Usually get at least 4 yrs. out of them. I have a 4 bank dual pro that I plug in usaually as soon as I get back. I leave them plugged till its time to fish. Keep those batteries topped off and they will last a good while