Converter. You need a converter.

It is possible to get thru a night on a fully charged 24v but you'll have to baby it. These trolling motors tend to melt things when run full
blast all night. You need heavier wires and heavier connections.

 

We don't use a genny 90% of the time so converter isn't a option.

 

You'll ruin a trolling a trolling motor running them wide open I figured that our the hard way after the third troller last year

 

Then buy three sets of batteries that's about your only option

 

Hard to believe we would need 3 sets of batts. We are going through 3 batts now on 12v system on a 12hr night. 80lb 24v should be more efficient than what we ate using now I'd think. What kind of trollers you burning up? Reason for us going to bigger troller is so we don't have to run full blast.

 

troller and convertor or kicker that's my op

 

We have to be silent, bigheads don't like the noise and once their up around here that's all you'll want to shoot.

 

Can't answer all questions but my own observation... On my 18.5' G3, two batteries on a 12V 45# Motorguide, I would have to run the switch on at least #4 and half through the night on #5 (full throttle) and would get 5-5.5 hours on full charged batteries.

I recently installed a 24V Minn Kota 70# Edge and I bass fished in the wind for 5 hours with the motor on #2 and #3 constant and it pulled the boat better and held in places my 45# would never have dreamed of on #5 and I still had plenty of battery left (same two batteries) after 5 hours.

My theory is that the motor pulls less amps to push the boat better and I will get 6+ hour if not more moving my boat at the same bowfishing speeds this year.

I believe it is like gas motors and torque. A small gas motor will not always get better fuel milage than a bigger motor with low end torque moving the same mass and weight. The bigger motor work much less harder to achieve same movement and thus use les fuel.

 

Thank you for your reply, it helped a lot!! That is what I was I was hoping to see, the 55 we have one the boat now is a turd and if it burns up oh well it won't be much of a loss. Sometimes I wish it would so we would have to commit to a new one lol. I'm thinking the 80 is gona be a huge difference to us and it will not be staining nearly as hard as our 55 to do what we need to do.

 

Minn Kota edge hand control they just aren't built to be run on 5 for 8-10 straight. You'll probably end up running it harder than you think and from my experience they aren't that much more efficient. Are you running your lights off batteries too?

 

No, troller is on batts by itself. Guess we've been lucky with our edge 55hc then, no problems with it yet but just to small to drag 18' boat around

 

Mines on a 14/48 it was 3/4 four times a week 3 6 hour trips and an all night trip on the weekend. What are you running your lights off of?

 

Used bow mounted lights for bigheads last yr. built a led tower this yr and they will be ran off a battery by themselves.

 

I'd have atleast two extra batteries in the boat. There's nothing worse than having batteries run down before your ready to leave

 

I hear ya!! From now until the bigheads come up we run halos, converter be awesome to have right now but we still have to be setup for when the genny has to stay at home. When we are out for bigheads how much would a coverter help if we fired the genny up just when we motor from place to place? Say a 10min run every couple hrs

 

I run mine all night and use it as a charger when I'm at home. But I'd say if your batteries get low crank the generator and hit the bank for an hour or two while they charge atleast you won't be going home

 

Im running a minn kota 80 on my 1770 and we can run 12 hours easy on 1 set of batteries with 3 people. Using Interstate srm29's.

 

Get a 24 volt 80# troller and biggest 29 series or 31 series batteries you can get and you should be good..

 

I run a 24V Motorguide 71lb on a 1660 flatbottom & rarely bump up to 2 or 3. Batteries will last 12 hours unless I really "dog it". Run WIDE open on 5 & maybe 6 hours

 

Alright looks like we wld be good with the 80 and take spare set of batteries for the long nights. How bout you guys that run 101's 36v, how long can you run on set of batteries?

 

Will let you know after this weekend, just put one on new boat and hopefully try it friday nite on just batteries, no conveterers. Not planning on an allniter but will check voltage at start and end and see how far drain down to get an idea.

 

I bass fish pretty fast and I had a 109 motor guide tour pro digital on my bass boat and I could run it on 70% for two full days of fishing

 

If we knew forsure we could run all night on one set of batteries with a 101 we might consider goin that route. If not we will probably end up with a 80 and two sets of batts. We are in the process of extending our front deck and we are going to move our troller batteries under it so we are just worried we will be getting to much weight up front.

 

80 lb MK and 10x27w LEDs @24v.

W/out converters, 4 wallmart batteries would last 5 hours or so. I would not run less than 4 batts w/outconverters.

 

That With your LEDs running continuos? If we go with the 80 we will have 4 batteries after reading everyone's replies. Our LEDs will be on a separate battery and not be ran continuously, just flip em on to scan for bigheads then right back off.

 

I run a maxxum 80 with farm & fleet 29 series batterys. 1652 boat, 3 guys. Fish fast and bats dead 5 hrs max! Got a converter and all good now