chpsk8
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I went out saturday and beached. We ran the radio for two hours, and the fridge was on for 6 hours. I had to fire the starboard motor three times to power up on the beach (water on the river was rising throughout the day).
When we went to leave the starboard battery was too weak to fire the motor. I had the switch on 1 the whole day. I switched it to All, but even that wasn't enough and I had to fire the portr motor and I had to use the emergency start switch ( thank you whoever the genius was that put that in the design specs!).
At the end of the day I put it back in the slip, plugged in and turned on the converter/charger.
This morning I went to start the boat and had it on 1 and all I got was a click. I switched to both and it fired up.
So obviously I taxed the house battery pretty good and I'm planning on upgrading, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing with the current system until then.
The boat has three new batteries this spring, nothing special, but decent size.
When I had the battery on 1 and it didn't start, should I have put it to 2, or was All the right move even though it didn't start. Did putting it in All move some juice to the dead battery, but suck the 2 battery down also? I did lag a couple minutes between switching and starting.
Should I be shutting off the battery switches when charging on the dock or leaving them on?
Thanks for your thoughts.
When we went to leave the starboard battery was too weak to fire the motor. I had the switch on 1 the whole day. I switched it to All, but even that wasn't enough and I had to fire the portr motor and I had to use the emergency start switch ( thank you whoever the genius was that put that in the design specs!).
At the end of the day I put it back in the slip, plugged in and turned on the converter/charger.
This morning I went to start the boat and had it on 1 and all I got was a click. I switched to both and it fired up.
So obviously I taxed the house battery pretty good and I'm planning on upgrading, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing with the current system until then.
The boat has three new batteries this spring, nothing special, but decent size.
When I had the battery on 1 and it didn't start, should I have put it to 2, or was All the right move even though it didn't start. Did putting it in All move some juice to the dead battery, but suck the 2 battery down also? I did lag a couple minutes between switching and starting.
Should I be shutting off the battery switches when charging on the dock or leaving them on?
Thanks for your thoughts.