Remote Battery Terminal ideas

[woollybugger]

I want to keep my deep cycle battery in a hatch toward the front of my boat, but my troling motor is a transome mount. I was thinking of running some heavy duty wiring from the front hatch to the aft and creating a small box with a couple of terminals on it to hook the motor up to.
does anyone see any issues that i may run into? i wouls like to be able to just hook my charger to these remoter terminals as well so i dont have to keep pulling the cover off my battery box to charge it. I am pretty sure the wires i am using are going to work as thet are the same gauge as the ones on the trolling motor.
this is a 12 foot boat, so i will have a run of about 10 feet of wire.
thanks in advance for any insight!!

 

[lncoop]

Re: Remote Battery Terminal ideas

Should work fine.

 

[seabob4]

Re: Remote Battery Terminal ideas

You'll be fine. Use a couple of PowerPosts, you can get them at Worst Marine actually pretty cheap...

 

[NYBo]

Re: Remote Battery Terminal ideas

I would bump up the wire gauge by at least one size to account for the extra distance.

 

[5thwheeler]

Re: Remote Battery Terminal ideas

I am doing the same thing you have in mind. I hooked up both NEGATIVE wires from the 15hp electric start Tohatsu, and the trolling motor to the aluminum hull. I hooked up the POSITIVE motor wires to a common connection on a fuseable terminal board, the board is mounted in a water proof box located on the transom. I already had a TWO WIRE (red & black) 6 gage cable that I ran from the same common connection as the motor wires, to the battery box. The battery box is located in the bow of the 14ft dingy. I connected both positive wires to a Knife switch mounted on the POSITIVE terminal, and used a short wire from the NEGATIVE terminal to the hull. Both cable wires are almost equivalent to one low gage POSITIVE wire, and the hull is essentially a very low resistance NEGATIVE wire. I can use the knife switch to quickly isolate the battery as needed.