Battery to power Minn Kota trolling motor?

What kind of 12 Volt battery should i get to power a 30 lb. thrust Minn Kota Endura? What charger? and where should i get it?





LINKS would be realllly helpful|||you want the biggest, heaviest marine deepcycle you can afford, and a "smart charger" with "maintain" or "float" mode. (*not* a "trickle-charger").





walmarts has a good marine deepcycle battery for a good price. I got my charger at Sam's club.|||Exide sell a Sonnenschein monoblock that is industry standard Gel technology - model GF 12 094 It is rated at 93.5 A/hr at C5 rate (18.7 amps continuous draw) into 12V.





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Note the charts suggest around three hours life @ 300 watt load. You can use those types of charts from a manufacturer to determine your run time at different settings and with different batteries. If you can't get that info for a battery I wouldn't touch it with a stick - 'cos then you have no idea of what the battery is capable of or built for.





Chargers are available from any good electronic or automotive store - always use good quality multi-stage charger units and keep all batteries fully charged at all times.





If you choose chain store cheap batteries, or wet lead acid types you cannot safely draw them below 50% without damage. Deep cycle is just a less shallow cycle - not a battery that will handle being flattened to %26gt;10% more than a handful of times before total failure. To put this in perspective I have one battery here that did 5 years hard marine commercial service, 2 on a tractor, 2 in a Landcruiser, and just swapped into a Hilux 6 months ago. I use top shelf batteries and chargers - and solar panels and I get a minimum of 5 years brutal commercial use. For a RAP (remote area power) system 12 years life is minimum if the management system is right. I can get cheaper batteries etc., but even if they cost half the price, I only get a third the life and uncertain reliability, so the most expensive setup is the cheapest to buy, the most cost effective probably the most expensive at the beginning. If you allow a battery to stay discharged for any period it will degrade, no matter how expensive - you MUST recharge asap every use to keep the battery up at 95% or better. You must also educate yourself on the actual practical realities of battery system management - forget the advertising spin and the yabbering of salespeople.





You will always get what you pay for - cheap batteries have less metal in them, therefore they cannot function as well or as long as a quality battery. When someone tells you they get many years out of a Kmart special when dragging it down to zero% every week and charging it with a $19.99 charger from the same place - they are having a fantasy attack - no fridge will work for a week on a half charged car battery. It doesn't work that way, and any real measurement of draw and capacity will show that the numbers just can't work. I base my service knowledge on Certificate 4 in Renewable energy technologies, and thirty years of practical field work on farm, marine and RAP systems - including my own systems that I build from scratch.|||A group 27 deep cycle marine battery is designed for this use. they have heaver plates than a normal battery, thus they last longer and recharge faster. Walmart and Sears have good quality at reasonable prices, OR look for an Interstate Battery dealer and he can get you a good one, if he doesn't have on on his rack. Good Luck.|||go to the junk yard and buy 4 batteries for 60$


keep them charged up--dont let them discharge--charge once a month





you'll be tired of it all before the batteries are no good