Does anyone run any accessories off the trolling motor batteries or do you have all electronics and accessories on the cranking battery and the trolling motor only on the trolling batteries?
Is there any reason why you shouldn't share the load between cranking and trolling batteries?
If you run electronics you’ll have noise. If you run pumps you run the risk losing them if the situation gets bad. Leave things as they are.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity,
nothing else matters.
Hmm, if the pumps run down the trolling motor batteries you can still start the main engine to get home!Originally Posted by CatFan
What if you split a hull and need your bilge pumps to keep the hull drained? You need pumps powered by a source that keeps running as long as you have gas.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity,
nothing else matters.
If you are there to start the engine you can also turn on the parallel switch to support pumps on the house bank.
On our boat I fitted a 3 way valve on each of the engine raw water supplies. The normal setting took in raw sea water but you could switch it over to sucking water out of the bottom of the bilge to remove massive amounts of water in an emergency.
I have my power pole pumps hooked up to two of my 3 tm batteries, has been like this. For 2 of the three seasons since I bought brand new and my three interstate 29's are still kicking have used the boat approximately 300 days so far
Mercury 250 proxs 2B115089
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