Deep V 3654
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I'm getting ready to wire my new boat up and I'm planning on using a small (6x4x2.5") Cabelas 12V 8AH battery. I don't use a trolling motor, bought LED nav lights, a single small LED interior light and and older Humminbird Matrix 35 FF. When I fish at night I don't use the lights much bc no one is ever around, so I think it should be fine. Has anyone had experience with using similar smaller size batteries? Think it will do the trick? It will fit nicely in the rear side positive flotation area of the boat which are only about 7 inches deep. I am planning on leaving room for a second identical battery (in parallel) in case capacity becomes an issue.
I'm going a bit overboard and (based on recommendations I read here) am using the Seasense 5 switch panel. The wiring is simple, same as everyone else has done. But I also want to hard wire the charger to the boat. The charger is a small wall wart AC/DC thing. I know I could hook up a sensitive ammeter to check, but does anyone think there would be a small phantom power draw from the wall wart when its not plugged into AC? I have an open switch and could always wire the charger through that in case, but didn't want to do that unless its necessary.
Any and all suggestions are welcome!
I'm going a bit overboard and (based on recommendations I read here) am using the Seasense 5 switch panel. The wiring is simple, same as everyone else has done. But I also want to hard wire the charger to the boat. The charger is a small wall wart AC/DC thing. I know I could hook up a sensitive ammeter to check, but does anyone think there would be a small phantom power draw from the wall wart when its not plugged into AC? I have an open switch and could always wire the charger through that in case, but didn't want to do that unless its necessary.
Any and all suggestions are welcome!