04-23-2010, 01:54 AM
[quote ripnlip]Can any of you please have a look at this diagram. Am I making bacon here, or spinning my wheels? the shop wired it like this. just doesn't make sense to me. it's a crude drawing, but I was in a hurry. wired like this, would i be the same as a single battery?
thanks guys.[/quote]
That diagram is what is called series hookup- Almost. If you would put your negative of your trolling motor to the right side battery negative you'd have 24v, assuming they're both 12v batteries. The way your diagram is you're only running off one battery. The left one, since the negative terminal isn't hooked up to anything.
If you have a 12v trolling motor using two batteries, run the positive+of battery 1 to the positive+ of battery 2. The red/positive+ of your trolling motor will go to that + post.
Run another jumper/cable from the negative - of battery 1 to the negative of battery 2 and attach your black/negative - of your trolling motor to it. Doesn't matter which battery you use. That's called a parallel circuit.
If you put your trolling motor red clamp on battery #1 and put a cable from the negative of battery #1 to the positive of battery #2 and put your black/negative clamp
on the negative terminal of battery #2 you will double your voltage- 24v. That's a series circuit.
Using the flashlight analogy.
Flashlight use a series circuit. Your flashlight bulb tit it the positive+ and the bodyof the bulb is the negative or -. You drop a 1.5v D cell in it and drop another battery right behind it you'll be at 3v. One more battery will be 4.5v. So on and so on. Battery nipple is +. So you're putting a positive of the second battery to the negative of the first one, doubling your first voltage.
Clear as mud now?
Putting + to + and - to - will stay the same voltage but up the amperage.
Bearlakefishguy has a good diagram. Not as fast as he was.........
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thanks guys.[/quote]
That diagram is what is called series hookup- Almost. If you would put your negative of your trolling motor to the right side battery negative you'd have 24v, assuming they're both 12v batteries. The way your diagram is you're only running off one battery. The left one, since the negative terminal isn't hooked up to anything.
If you have a 12v trolling motor using two batteries, run the positive+of battery 1 to the positive+ of battery 2. The red/positive+ of your trolling motor will go to that + post.
Run another jumper/cable from the negative - of battery 1 to the negative of battery 2 and attach your black/negative - of your trolling motor to it. Doesn't matter which battery you use. That's called a parallel circuit.
If you put your trolling motor red clamp on battery #1 and put a cable from the negative of battery #1 to the positive of battery #2 and put your black/negative clamp
on the negative terminal of battery #2 you will double your voltage- 24v. That's a series circuit.
Using the flashlight analogy.
Flashlight use a series circuit. Your flashlight bulb tit it the positive+ and the bodyof the bulb is the negative or -. You drop a 1.5v D cell in it and drop another battery right behind it you'll be at 3v. One more battery will be 4.5v. So on and so on. Battery nipple is +. So you're putting a positive of the second battery to the negative of the first one, doubling your first voltage.
Clear as mud now?
Putting + to + and - to - will stay the same voltage but up the amperage.
Bearlakefishguy has a good diagram. Not as fast as he was.........
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