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    bullet wiring

    Are the lights, livewells and other switches powered by the trolling batteries or the starting battery?
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    Starter. They gotta have 12v not 24v

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    The reason I ask is, my helix 7 kept giving me the low voltage alarm the other day and when put my starter battery on charge when I got home, it said 12.7 volts and 97%. My troller batteries were low.

    It is possible to be connected to the troller batteries and only pull 12 volts, you don't have to hook up 24 volts.
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    I know my on board charger was throwing 24 volts to my bird and it fried it

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    Check and see what the low voltage is set to on your graph

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    alarm is set at 12.3. It was showing 11.7. I know my starter battery was not that low.
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    Do you have a strong enough battery for your finders? 1000 cca I think is what you need

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    also poor switches, wiring, long wires with not enough size and fuse blocks all drop your units voltage reading. poor crimps vs soldier also
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