Thread: Trolling motor battery

All depends on what youre willing to spend. No doubt in my mind the blue tops are the best. WAY too expensive for me though. I use the biggest marine batteries that Walmart has. I have pretty good luck with them. Theyre around $90-$100 apiece.

Originally Posted by gabowman

All depends on what youre willing to spend. No doubt in my mind the blue tops are the best. WAY too expensive for me though. I use the biggest marine batteries that Walmart has. I have pretty good luck with them. Theyre around $90-$100 apiece.

Unless you want high end gel batteries it's hard to beat price and convenience of Walmart. Course Interstates are good too, but pricey.

Pchop, I got 6 batteries on my pontoon. Walmart is best option with that many. I got three for the trolling motor 36volt. 1 cranking and two to run my inverter and lights with. Two three bank chargers on board and all are lasting pretty good. Three years and not a hick up yet. I just bought a battery from Tractor Supply for $ 130 buck with same warranty as Walmart. I want to say it was a 24 series. If you find a good price let me know. I need three for my other boat.

What they said! This is how I view it. 100 bucks for deep cycle ever start with 2 yr free replacement. 280.00+ for higher end batteries same warranty 2 yrs .so if the ever start only Last A little over 2 years each you are guaranteed almost 6 years For the same money that you only have a 2 yr warranty for.

Something my son told me...and I think it is working pretty good...is to go to Advanced and buy a box of battery acid to add to your batteries instead of distilled water. He has some batts working on 7 years now and I have some 3 or more years old now and have been using the acid that long. Time will tell for me but those batts are amazing that my son is running. BTW, theyre Everstart batts too.. I'm also a firm believer that an onboard charger is key too.

I was told by a technician at an Interstate seminar that the only liquid you loose is plain water due to evaporation or overcharging. Therefore you should only add distilled water to your batteries. However you can't argue with results so your son may be on to something..

I bought a battery renew kit and all it contained was only enough acid to renew the 6 batteries on my golf cart. You had to pull out so many ounces ( same as replacement) add the acid back and charge batteries to renew. I can see where adding acid instead of distilled water would be no difference than the renew kits.
On the renewed batteries; they were holding a lot longer after renewing them. Not as long as when new but I only spent like $30. Sold the cart so I don’t know how long the batteries held up but I ran them for close to 6 months.


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