engel conected to trolling batteries

[pezz]

Thinking of hooking up my engel to my 24v trolling batteries.

Any issues with this and will it affect my trolling motor?

[stevej525]

Good Question Pez,

I am about to do exactly the same thing with a 40ltr Engel Fridge , I have an Ultimate Deep cycle UL100 Trolling motor battery which I have wired up to charge off the Cranking battery when the motor is going , it keeps it sort of topped up during the day , I was wondering what effect of adding a fridge would do , obviously would not be going all the time, but keen to know if anyone else has done this

Steve J

[scubascott]

The engel will run off 24V without a problem. Running both the fridge and eleccy wont be a problem either, you will obviously have less battery life running the fridge also but the current draw of the fridge will be halved when running on 24V.

[pezz]

So shouldn't do any damage to the electric motor electronics then.

[scubascott]

No it will be fine. I run a fridge and eleccy occasionally on weekends away (on 12V though) and never had a problem with either the fridge or electric motor.