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when you have an electric start kicker, do you wire it to your main motor starting battery or is it better to have a seperate battery for the kicker motor ?
bluedog
07-29-2009, 06:17 PM
mine is wired to the main battery :whip:
the battery gets charged when either motor is running
bluedog
Fishnnutt
07-29-2009, 08:07 PM
I have mine on the main battery. If ever there isn't enough charge in it I can start my kicker with the manual recoil and then let it charge the battery.
Phil T
07-29-2009, 08:38 PM
What "Guest" said is good advice.
when you wire it to the main battery do you need anything special like a battery isolator ?
what happens if you start the kicker befor you shut off the main motor or vice versa ?
northernbite
07-30-2009, 06:59 AM
The motor starts and you go fishing. Mine are hooked to the main battery so that a charge is going into this at all times. My electric trolling motors are seperate. Hook it up and go fishing.
Paul
yarcraft91
07-30-2009, 07:14 AM
when you wire it to the main battery do you need anything special like a battery isolator ?
what happens if you start the kicker befor you shut off the main motor or vice versa ?
No isolator is necessary if you wire two motors to the same battery- the regulator/rectifier in each motor is all the isolation you need. Usually at the end of the day, I warm up the main motor while I blow the carbon out of the 2-stroke kicker. The battery is the common connection point between them. To each motors's voltage regulator, it just looks like the battery is fully charged- no problem.
You will want a separate isolator to use one motor to charge two or more batteries.
Thank you guys for all the info, I appreciate it