What is this??

[grubber]

Dumb question. This switch is at the bow of my 17.5 fish and ski. I know the recepticle is for a trolling motor-- but the switch is where my questions lie. I do not have or use a trolling motor on this boat. So the questions are:

Why the "Charge 2-12V" toggle(up position)?
Why the "12 V" toggle (middle position)?
Why the "12/24V Run" toggle(down position)?

I assume to tilt up/down is for the motor, to be able to do this from the front of the boat. Does the charge mean that you can plug in a device to charge the battery here? Like an onboard charger? I just bought an onboard charger and don't want to mess anything up.

My first fishing boat (owned a pontoon before but also no trolling motor), I know this is stupid but just need to know.

Thanks.

 

[DJ]

Re: What is this??

Dumb question. This switch is at the bow of my 17.5 fish and ski. I know the recepticle is for a trolling motor-- but the switch is where my questions lie. I do not have or use a trolling motor on this boat. So the questions are:

Why the "Charge 2-12V" toggle(up position)?
Why the "12 V" toggle (middle position)?
Why the "12/24V Run" toggle(down position)?

I assume to tilt up/down is for the motor, to be able to do this from the front of the boat. Does the charge mean that you can plug in a device to charge the battery here? Like an onboard charger? I just bought an onboard charger and don't want to mess anything up.

My first fishing boat (owned a pontoon before but also no trolling motor), I know this is stupid but just need to know.

Thanks.

We can't see the picture but my guess is that someone had the trolling motor outlet set up so that they could charge the batteries from there. They would have done that by wiring on a trolling motor plug to their battery charger. The switch gave them the option to charge one or both of the batteries.

The third switch position would have been to RUN the trolling motor.

You can hook up your onboard charger directly to the batteries, as you planned. The only switch function that will work then will be the RUN position.

 

[grubber]

Re: What is this??

Having a heck of a time trying to get a photo on here. Maybe this will work:

 

[grubber]

Re: What is this??

That's better. Looks like it came that way from the factory. Is ths common? Wouldn't an onboard be better for the battery than to try to hook into this thing?

 

[DJ]

Re: What is this??

That's better. Looks like it came that way from the factory. Is ths common? Wouldn't an onboard be better for the battery than to try to hook into this thing?

Picture worked great. Nice job!

Yes, that is factory. Whether or not all the wiring is still there, or not, I do not know.

I would check it out. You may be able to save the $$$ from your onboard unit. That is assuming you have a suitable battery charger already.

You should have trolling motor battery leads somewhere in the boat. All you need is an ohm meter to check out the continuity between the trolling motor plug receptacle (in different switch positions) and the battery leads.

 

[Silvertip]

Re: What is this??

You have the ability to charge a 24V battery setup (2 12V batteries in series) through the trolling motor receptacle. In the good old days, only 12V chargers were available so the switch was added to break the 24V wiring and parallel the two batteries so they could be charged with a single 12V charger. Dual output onboard chargers with isolated outputs eliminated the need for this system. The 12V setting provides 12V at the receptacle. The RUN setting provided 12 AND 24V for the troller since some 24V motors could run on 12V as well. .