Thats what I do also, but after 4 to 5 hours in rough water the Elec is running at high speed the battery's don't last so I pull the Elec and link my kicker to the big motor and finish my day at the wheel old school
I installed a Minn Kota alternator last spring and I have yet to run my trolling motor batteries even close to dead. Although it's of no use if you troll with a kicker though because no kicker puts out enough charging amps to make it work properly. I troll with the main Honda 90 which puts out more than enough to keep charging the batteries at 10 amps per bank. Even after many hours of trolling when I come home and plug in the onboard charger the batteries are back to full charge in only a matter of couple of hours where before it took well into the next day. What a difference it made for me FF.Thats what I do also, but after 4 to 5 hours in rough water the Elec is running at high speed the battery's don't last so I pull the Elec and link my kicker to the big motor and finish my day at the wheel old school
Only problem on those days I have to leave the boat out in the sun for a week to dry out from the waves I've took over the bow.
Sorry to hear about your day Albert, but some days you just can't win and we still call fishing fun
Thanks Wave Runner, thats a good idea, only thing my main motor is a Noisy Smokey 90 Merc 2 stroke
Hear you on the 2 stroke smoke. Had many 2 strokes over the years but after having a super quiet, smokeless 4-stroke we really don't ever want to go back. It's unfortunate that the kickers don't supply enough amps to run a Minn Kota alternator then we could have the best of both worlds.Thanks Wave Runner, thats a good idea, only thing my main motor is a Noisy Smokey 90 Merc 2 stroke
Be great if it would work on my 4 stroke kicker.
Man I miss my 60 HP 4 stroke on my Lund side console
One day mite upgrade to a main bigger 4 stroke.
