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Best Trolling Motor Batteries
Some have told me to go to a VMAX MR127 battery but just wanted to get some ideas what you guys are running. I want maintenance free. Thanks in advance Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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we have a 112 ipilot, I ran the anchor feature nearly all day Saturday in pretty strong currents, and we had 75% battery life at the end of the day. Interstate batteries. This was on a nautic star 224xts
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Jeff is there a certain interstate battery you using? |
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I'm not sure, it's the deep cycles for sure. I'd guess they are about 14" long, grey with green top. It's the real popular ones that I believe most of us are using.
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Also happy with the Interstate batteries on my Ipilot. Picked mine up in Scott.
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Im on year 3 of my interstate batteries. They need to be changed tough.
New I could go 2 days no problem with my Ipilot. Now I am down to a day. Academy batteries would have been long gone by now. |
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Or those interstate bats maintenance free
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I've had a lot of people suggest these new lithium batteries. Might be an option to consider. Wish I could give more info.
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Yeah they are nearly maintenance free. You may want to open them up to add water once or twice a year, but you don't really have to. We hardly ever do unless we notice they aren't holding a charge like they normally do. |
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I have 3 agm batteries from batteries plus that I have been very happy with. They aren't cheap but they have 5 year free replacement
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I vote for interstate Interstate. 3 years so far
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NAPA sells a marine cranking and a deep cycle battery.
I bought their cranking battery a little over 4 years ago, and 2 deep cycle batteries that will be 4 years old in Aug. All 3 seem to be going good and no sign of weakening. About twice a year I check the acid level, and add some water. When I get home from a trip, I hook up the charger until the next trip. I think I paid about $ 90 each. |
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Napa batteries are a generic battery same as wal mart....My last job they were using napa batteries and paying ridiculus prices....There was a company 2 miles from napa that I went to and bought wholesale what napa paid....They just put whoever label you want...Napa batteries are the same as wal mart...You can go to a distributer of batteries and give them a made up company name and get a whole lot cheaper...
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Any body from this area interested it's behind the kenner braketag station off williams blvd. in kenner....I'm sure there is a distributer out towards west la.area....
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With a Walmart or Academy battery, the best I got was maybe 30 months. Average life about 24 months. This was with keeping a battery charger connected all the time same as I currently do. So...... why have I gotten almost 2x the life on the NAPA batteries. Only difference is I don't go fishing as often in the past. |
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I got 4 years on my last wal mart cranking battery and it was still strong but I got a new one , didn't want to chance it...3 years out my troll battery...
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It has been a number of years so things possibly changed up...Back in the day I couldn't get any more than what the warranty was...
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I'm running walmarts in my bass boat and they are still going good. I bought them march 2013. I can fish all day with them and I haven't noticed any lack of power at the end of the day and I'm not easy on the throttle |
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