Battery questions???

[soko44mag]

Currently running a 191 Islander, 3.0 with no kicker. Right now just have one battery running the marine radio, Hummingbird, stereo system w/ 4 speakers and a pair of 55 watt floods that are used sparingly when unlaoding the boat w motor off .......carry a spare battery on board and have a one bank charger that gets hot as heck....can barely touch the thing at times Im adding two Cannon mag 5's soon and am wondering if I should stick with the same battery, go to the spare thats not charging or run them parralel? I think if I run them together , only one bettery will be charged, correct? Anybody have any suggestions or know if this is to much cap. for only one cell, Thanks

[ballsdeep184]

I run dual marine batteries with a switch, never have any issues. I know that when I charge my batteries I have the switch to all and it charges both , with onboard charger I would think you would have to have a dual bank charger, but I am not 100percent on that.

[silver one]

i run dual marine batteries with a switch, never have any issues. I know that when i charge my batteries i have the switch to all and it charges both , with onboard charger i would think you would have to have a dual bank charger, but i am not 100percent on that.

same here. and yes upgrade to the dual bank charger. you should not have any issues after that other then old batteries.

[danthebuilder]

You need a battery, a switch for that battery, and start looking for a kicker. I would never go out on that lake with less than 2 motors...