Power for livescope

[MonteSS]

Dedicated 16v Lithium

No advantage to 16v

[born 2 fish]

I will be using a 12v 50ah ionic lithium.

[swamprat]

THIS

My cranking battery

[JohnnyK]

WEIZE 12V 100 amp hour from Amazon, it's currently $280 shipped. I had it running a 12 inch garmin, Livescope, 12 inch helix with mega360, garmin GPS puck and 9 inch garmin.

[Bobby Gray]

Going to piggy back on this topic for some advice. Running a 126sv, gls10 w/ LVS, and planning to add either a UHD 9 or 7 to bow as well. LiPO4 50ah adequate for this. Not sure about my calculations but i think max draw for those 3 would be 5.25 ah? roughly 10 hours capacity?, I would assume a lot more real world? Anyone doing same or similar with 50 ah? really struggling with room... smaller i can keep this the better. Running console unit w/ my house battery.

[MonteSS]

Going to piggy back on this topic for some advice. Running a 126sv, gls10 w/ LVS, and planning to add either a UHD 9 or 7 to bow as well. LiPO4 50ah adequate for this. Not sure about my calculations but i think max draw for those 3 would be 5.25 ah? roughly 10 hours capacity?, I would assume a lot more real world? Anyone doing same or similar with 50 ah? really struggling with room... smaller i can keep this the better. Running console unit w/ my house battery.

Your calculations look about right. 50ah sounds good.

[Greg58]

Due to my outing today I was searching and found this thread. Here is my fishing day today summery and question.
running 2 ea 106 graphs, black box and a lvs34.all run on 10 gauge wire with a power cut off for it all. Battery was fully charged this morning 54 amp lithium Dakota battery.was pretty cold out this morning plus bluebird skies. Had to run both graphs at 100% display brightness, this is the first run with the lvs34 as I upgraded from the lvs32. Was thrilled how much farther I could see my bait so was running 80ft in forward mode. Only got 3.5 hours till the whole thing shut down! Always been able to go all day before however I had the lvs32 is the newer transducer to blame? Or maybe the cold?

[MonteSS]

What voltage were you showing at start? Is boat kept outside? I would say didn't get a full charge or bad battery. That small gauge wire doesn't help.

[Greg58]

Correction, I used 8awg marine wiring for all. Boat is stored indoors always above 55 degrees. Charger showed a full charge I know, however I never checked the units voltage display. I never expected a problem so never thought about it.

[mayaemer]

I run a 100ah ionic as my house battery. It supports two Garmin 126sv’s at the trolling motor, one Garmin 106sv at the console, and two gls 10’s for dual livescope. When everything is on, it pulls a little over 7 amps. Should last me 12-13 hours if I never put anything on standby.

The second 106 sv at the console is run to my cranking battery along with everything else that is 12 von the boat such as lights and pumps, etc.

[Smokeyr67]

I run a 100ah ionic as my house battery. It supports two Garmin 126sv’s at the trolling motor, one Garmin 106sv at the console, and two gls 10’s for dual livescope. When everything is on, it pulls a little over 7 amps. Should last me 12-13 hours if I never put anything on standby.

The second 106 sv at the console is run to my cranking battery along with everything else that is 12 von the boat such as lights and pumps, etc.

My setup is similar to yours, 2 x 16 inch MFD's GLS10, GSD 25,heading sensor, stereo and some under gunwale LED's running off a 120 ah lithium house battery. I can go out overnight, so about 14 hours and still have enough for a second night out. I've never had any issues with my sonar running this setup.

The cranking batteries (2 AGM's) cover everything else, starting, nav lights, spot light, bilge pumps, live bait tank, VHF and a few odds and ends like USB sockets.

[mayaemer]

Just ordered my first Garmin products, the 106 ultra & lvs-34. What battery are you guys using to power the unit? LiPo4? AGM? And finally size and amp hrs. Thanks

I run a 100 amp hour ionic lithium to power 3 ultras and 2 livescope gls-10’s. All together they pull 7-8 amps. My battery will last about 12-14 hours. If you are getting a dedicated battery just for the units you indicated, a 50 amp hour would get you 13-14 hours because you will only be pulling 3-4 amps total. If you run a battery with higher voltage, the units pull less amps. My ionic is usually around 13.2 volts for the first 50% of discharge.

[Champ 2001]

1) clean power ----- If you use a separate Lithium battery, you don't have the concerns of interference that may be riding the shared motor battery circuit.
2) Convenience ----- The wires on the GLS10, are relatively short and if you mount a small Lithium battery (sized for the load) in a front locker, you save the aggravation of wire pulls and/or purchasing cable extensions.
3) eliminate additional loading on the house battery. this only matters if it is marginal.

[swamprat]

My cranking battery

THIS,,, I run 2 93s,1 126,black box, 2 live well pumps, and a 175 Pro XS all on my group 31 cranking battery. It will run all day.
OH I almost forgot I do use separate trolling motor batteries. Talk about convivence, Just plug up one 3 bank charger at the end of the day, Now that's coinvent

[Meleagris1]

My cranking batteries - two 190ah batts in parallel for 380ah.

[KoukiMonster]

I'm running 1x125ah Impulse Lithium for my cranking, 2 Helix 10s, 1 Mega 360, Garmin 106sv, LVS34 and a Foresight motorized pole mount. I get 13v to my 106sv and to my GLS10 box. I was able to go out for the first time with it yesterday and fished for 6hrs and still had plenty of power when I called it a day. I think I had over 60% battery life left.

[falconfish]

I’m thinking about the 16v Lithium for my livescope….Do you think it improves the display?

[Les Young]

I’m thinking about the 16v Lithium for my livescope….Do you think it improves the display?

I run one myself. No it doesn't improve imagery but it's sure nice knowing you have plenty of battery power for a long day.