Do not hook up your crappie light to your trolling motor batteries !

[David Heine]

What a moron I was ! I use to have a 12 volt trolling motor, then I upgraded. That was at the end of last fall. So the other night I hooked up my crappie light to my new 24 volt system, wow that crappie light sure got bright ! Between the light and the flames in my boat, man was that a bad idea ! Thank god the wiring on the crappie light was so thin, it gave first. It burned a nice line into my carpet and it looks like crap. But the funny part was the floating crappie light on fire that I pushed away from the boat, I guess you had to be there ! Chalk it up as a learning experience I guess.

 

[Michael Snow]

Okay, did you hook the light up to ONE trolling motor battery or to the series (pos from one, neg from the other)?



I am still trying to figure this out, but I thought that one TM battery was 12v even if the tm was wired to 24v.

 

[Rick Hale]

Sorry to hear about your Burnt carpet and stuff --

Glad no one was hurt --

Sounds like something I would do--

Next time take a camera -- I bet that floating light did look funny --

Take care now.

HaleDamage

 

[Steve Rizza]

Get a patent-----floating crappie bbq cooker.Shore lunches are a thing of the past.No need to even leave the water.

 

[James D.]

glad everythings ok musky. i thought about setting off some fireworks from the boat this year on the 4th, but decided that fire - boat - big gas tank wasn't a good idea. mike is right that it would b ok to connect across one of the batteries for 12vdc instead of both.



jd