Fisherman

Just went out and looked at my F40, judging by the tinned ends, it has at least 4ga. When the motor starts, it's drawing a pretty big amount of current and your added length of 14 feet may well justify the 2 ga. If the wire capacity is not there, things can go bad. You can get 2 and 4 ga welding wire by the foot from Princess Auto. They also carry the big crimp on lugs. Properly tin the ends with the right type of solder. Then seal the ends with liquid electric tape. No more corrosion going under the wire jacket.

Good old W10, royal pain.

It would be nice to have this on the weekend.

Not biting but poking in the eyes is extremely annoying.

Battery draining can be as simple as one draining into another if they are wired in parallel and are equalizing to the battery of the lowest capacity. Otherwise, get a multimeter (one with a 10amp setting preferably), take off the positive battery cable and put the voltmeter between the + post and + cable, any voltage with everything off will give you a reading. Pull fuses one at a time until you get a zero reading, poof, there's you culprit. Then isolate that circuit to see where it's grounding out or using power. Some boat radios, AM/FM and VHF will draw just to keep the radio station memory alive.

Ok, I'll buy that.

Well I have to disagree Wayne, my last boat battery was just traded in at 13 years, my RV battery is 9 years old and ATV 7. All 3 are hooked up full time off season to maintainers that put out about 1 - 1.5 amps when needed. Never had to add any water.

Good find.

Johnson Controls, Exide, Deka, Trojan, Rolls Surette, just to name a few.

Pretty smart wife, I wouldn't give you $5 towards and etec.

Ya, unethical mating of lures.

200amp RC(reserve capacity) is pretty high so I would take an educated stab and say its a deep cycle. Adding another battery in parallel would virtually double the run time, depending on how hard and long you use the trolling motor.

Looks like red clothes line.

Ya, last day for the georgian derby, sure is a nice day.

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Beyond life expectancy by a wide margin. It doesn't owe me jack squat.

I got absolutely nothing, went east, west, south to Grape Is, up to the north side boat docks, shallow, deep. You can still see down about 16 ft, nothing.

Well after 13 years the old faithful Exide gr 24 finally made its last couple of starts this morning. When I traded it in at Total Battery, the guy asked what I did to keep it that long. Off season it stays on a VDC maintainer, constantly. None of this once a month stuff. Treat them right and they'll last a long time.

Haven't seen hide, hair(moustache) of him for a while now. Anyone know? Hope nothing has happened to him.

Brings back memories for me with my boys. One loved to fish, the other play with old snowmobiles.

Hahaha, been there, done that except spend 3k on musky lures.

Might be a good idea to do some reading and research, check warranty too. http://www.classaction.org/goodman-amana-lawsuit

Used to have a friend that would take a group of younger people and do the ditches, he regularly picked a big cargo trailer full of pop and beer cans, turned into cash for charity.

Ya, haven't heard from him in a while.

What model transducer?