Thinking about going all lithium. Looking at Ionics 125ah starting and three of the 50ah trolling batteries. Anybody run this set up with the stealth charger? Does it seem to be charging all three trolling batteries equally? Any issues with interference using the stealth charger?
2008 Camo Xpress H18 with 2021 Mercury 150 Pro XS 4S Serial # 3B021969
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Which stealth charger? The one I tried a long time ago (Minnkota) ONLY diverted charge to the trolling motor batteries AFTER the starting battery got to full charge. This day and age, with all the electronics your starting battery carries, I’ve never came back in with the main battery fully charged. If this is the case, no charge would ever be diverted to top off any of the trolling motor batteries.
you still need an AC charger when using the Stealth, you still need to plug in and charge at the end of the day unless you run a separate House and cranking battery or make really long runs
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I’ve been running Ionics for 3 years now and love them. I’m running 3 100ah
on the trolling motor and a 125ah for cranking. I have went 3 days without
charging them (tripped a house breaker) and the performed flawlessly. Good
luck.
I’m definitely interested in them, I’m just curious if people are having interference using the stealth charger with it sharing a common ground. I’ve had a couple stealth chargers on a few different boats and I always had interference when on the trolling motor. Never could get rid of it. Removed the charger and interference would be gone. Wondering if it does it with lithium or not?
2008 Camo Xpress H18 with 2021 Mercury 150 Pro XS 4S Serial # 3B021969
Originally Posted by bassfreaks
I quit using my stealth when I switched to lithiums, I never had any interference though.
I have a Stealth 1 charger AC/DC (tuned for AGM/Lithium) running 3 100 aHr lithium trolling batteries for my Ghost Trolling motor, one Lithium house battery for my Lowrance electronics, and one X2 AGM starting battery. Never a bit of problems, and zero interference. Love this setup.
ciao,
Marc
Same for me, Stealth 1 configured for lithium trolling batteries and AGM cranking battery. I have both the AC and the DC Stealth chargers. Never a bit of interference and batteries seem to always be above 80% when done for the day. But I do put them on the AC charger when I get home anyway.
NoCAL
2004TR-21X/2015 250 ProXS
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The stealth with 3 batteries will NOT keep them all the same. If you talk to Danny he highly suggests a single 36v because of this. I have a battery jumper to one tm battery and used it a few times over the years eventually resulting in that battery being way off and in fact it eventually failed. It had been charged by stealth only for 5 years. And never equalized individually.
I still have the stealth hooked up and charging my batteries but I also installed a 5x5x5 norco so that each battery gets charged properly all the time. For about a year I just put a single charger on each at home every couple months.
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