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Reply With Quoteyes you can do that, it'll just take longer to charge up
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Charger question
I’ve got a 12v trolling motor. I would like to add a second battery wired in parallel to keep 12 volts but increase my capacity when trolling.
question is, I’ve currently got 1 cranking battery and 1 trolling battery with a 2 bank minn Kota Charger. If I add a second trolling battery in parallel, can I use my two bank charger to charge all 3 batteries? 1 bank for cranking battery and the other bank to charge both parallel batteries?
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yes you can do that, it'll just take longer to charge up
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Had mine wired that way for about 5 years. As WB says, it takes a little longer but if you don't run them completely dead and want to fish 6-7 hrs latter never had a problem with them coming back to full charge.
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Thanks guys. Assume you wire to the charger the same way you do to the trolling motor, correct?
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Yep, wire to one battery.
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