Thread: How Much Battery Juice Do I need?

You might want to look at a lithium.

My ulterra 24V drains batteries pretty quick. I just bought a livescope and ordered an Ampped outdoors 19AH lithium battery to run just the livescope. With my fishing usually no more than 5 hours at a time it should serve me well.
Look on Ampped outdoors website and check there information based on your system.

Originally Posted by Grumpa

My ulterra 24V drains batteries pretty quick. I just bought a livescope and ordered an Ampped outdoors 19AH lithium battery to run just the livescope. With my fishing usually no more than 5 hours at a time it should serve me well.
Look on Ampped outdoors website and check there information based on your system.

I have that battery & use it to power my 93 sv & gls10 & have no problem fishing a 10 hour day so you won't have any problem fishing 5 to 6 hours at all.

I would definitely run separate battery on your LS!
i don’t see the outrageous price for the lithium .( But each to their own) . I can run 2 10” garmins one with Ls 8 hours on group 29 interstate before low battery warning comes on . I’m pretty much whooped after 8 hrs anyway if not before !

I have a neighbor that runs his 1222 and his GLS10 Livescope module on a Amped 30 AH battery.
He’s been running it for about 3 years and he’s happy with his.

Originally Posted by Les Young

I have that battery & use it to power my 93 sv & gls10 & have no problem fishing a 10 hour day so you won't have any problem fishing 5 to 6 hours at all.

Great, thanks for confirming my choice

If you have a 24v TM, 2 of your batteries should be dedicated to the TM only, everything else should be running of the starting battery (Graphs, Gas engine, Livewell etc). Im running a 100amp hour battery for my Garmin 106sv, 2 10" Hummingbirds, Livewell etc.. without any issues. The popular thing is to run a 4th battery for Livescope and most are going with Lithium set ups, but I'm not sold on the value of Lithium set ups yet, when you add up the cost of a Lithium charger, 100amp/hr Lithium battery and the hassle of plugging in another charger and finding a place top mount the battery, it just doesn't make sense. I was quoted over $1100 to change over and from what I read Lithium's have a 11yr life expectancy where as a Lead 100amp costs me $140 and should last 3 to 5 yrs, plus what no one mentions is that you cant safely jump a lithium if it goes down. Maybe Im old school but for now im sticking with a 3 lead battery set up.

Originally Posted by Tom 513

If you have a 24v TM, 2 of your batteries should be dedicated to the TM only, everything else should be running of the starting battery (Graphs, Gas engine, Livewell etc). Im running a 100amp hour battery for my Garmin 106sv, 2 10" Hummingbirds, Livewell etc.. without any issues. The popular thing is to run a 4th battery for Livescope and most are going with Lithium set ups, but I'm not sold on the value of Lithium set ups yet, when you add up the cost of a Lithium charger, 100amp/hr Lithium battery and the hassle of plugging in another charger and finding a place top mount the battery, it just doesn't make sense. I was quoted over $1100 to change over and from what I read Lithium's have a 11yr life expectancy where as a Lead 100amp costs me $140 and should last 3 to 5 yrs, plus what no one mentions is that you cant safely jump a lithium if it goes down. Maybe Im old school but for now im sticking with a 3 lead battery set up.

Just so you know it's very easy to run a lithium battery in the rod locker. You can easily run all electronics off of one & never have to worry about running the starting battery down. A battery to power the 106sv, gls-10 & both hmminbirds would be way less than$1100 bucks. I still run a everstart group 29 for a starting battery & 2 for the trolling motor with absolutely no interference in my electronics whatsoever. My little livescope battery was just under 200 bucks from amped outdoors.