i have a 10 ft bass raider boat and it came with the 40 ib trolling motor by minn kota .. i dont know what kind of battery to get or charger for it and i heard i need a 12v deep cylce but im not sure . Please help! I only plan on fishing lake banks and a couple creeks.|||Get a deep cycle marine battery and make sure it is not a marine cranking battery. For a charger I disagree with the other posters. Get you an automatic cut off 6 amp, 8 amp or 10 amp battery charger. The main reason for this is if you run your battery down after a full day of fishing a trickle charger will not be able to fully charge it back up in time to have a fully charged battery if you are planning to fish two days in a row.I fish 4 and 5 days straight at times and the battery has to be completely charged overnight. The trickle chargers at 2 amp will not do it.|||Ah, I have that same boat actually. I have a 36 pound Kota on mine and like it a lot. Just get you a deep cycle marine battery and a trickle charger like everyone said. Spend as much as you can on both the charger and battery. A bigger battery with more reserve time will let you fish all day unless you're constantly trolling around the lake or pond. For the charger definitely don't go cheap. A cheap charger will easily ruin a battery due to "overcharging" it. I bought a cheap Diehard charger from Sears one time and it wasn't long unitl my battery's life was cut way down. Minn Kota has some nice trickle chargers which will cut off after the battery is fully charge (A lot of cheaper trickles claim to do this but they won't). I spent about 100 bucks for mine.
Dumdum, you do somewhat have a point there but most trickles have a 2 amp and 10 amp setting. The 2 amp is of course a slow charge and 10 amp is a quicker charge. I thought most had this option anyways, I could be wrong.|||dum dum- a charger with a cut-off amperage will not fully charge your battery, resulting in less running time.Also, "deep cycle" and Marine" are two different things. If you think your battery is giving you optimum performance, than consider your amp hours rating to actual time on your motor.
Required reading for this subject is called the 12 volt side of life, part one being here
http://www.ccis.com/home/mnemeth/12volt/鈥?/a>
without getting into a long, drawn out discussion on 12 volt batteries, lets just throw out a few facts and comments in no particular order..
DOD or depth of discharge, is how far down your battery drains when in use. even with a deep Cycle battery, it shouldn't go below 50% or it will shorten the life of your battery considerably.
good advice already given, spend as much as you can on a good battery and charger. For a lesson in how well a charger can work (and save you hundreds in the long run) check out Zantrex true charge 10 http://www.majorpower.com/xantrex/truech鈥?/a> i have had this model for 10 years now and have fully charged batteries that last a long time. it takes into consideration temp. and has a micro prosseser that consantly checks the optimum amount the battery can be charged
Its hard to convince someone, until they see for themselves, how long their battery can last properly charged.
Its hard to compare things unless you've done it for a while, and having multiple deep cycle batteries to take care of has led me to these websites. by trial and error, having made mistakes that cost in the hundreds, do yourself a favor and read the 12 volt side of life.|||Yes a 12v deep cycle battery and a trickle charger (max 2amps) should do the trick. (check the voltage of the motor to be absolutely sure) (don't substitute a car battery either. (you should be able to get a trickle solar panel also) Hope this helps you.........R|||A 12 volt deep cycle and a trickle charger or capabilities to trickle charge.
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