[julia6roberts]

Yes, it is possible, but most of the time we find most customers don’t find it feasible. It is possible to recharge your trolling motor battery pack with a solar panel after use, but it does come with some limitations. A higher wattage solar panel is larger in size, so typically most people don’t have enough space for mounting the solar panel. In general, most trolling motor manufacturers typically recommend that a customer use a group 27 to group 31 size battery for their trolling motor. This means they factor you are going to discharge the battery at least 50% per use, which means a solar panel is going to need to make up for 50 to 65 amps if the battery is 50% discharged. more

[Mamarok]

While we wish every example here was possible, we hope you at least found our answers helpful. Not every situation is alike and there are situations where any one of these is possible. If after reading this post you still want to proceed, then we would invite you to read our article Solar Systems the Right Way, which will link to calculators to help you size your system.

[davux]

For 24v trolling motor batteries it becomes even more difficult to recharge the battery pack with a solar panel. If you are using a group 27 to 31 battery, you need a panel double the wattage of the 12 volt solar panels mentioned above. So a 24v 140 Watt solar panel at minimum up to a 24v 300 Watt solar panel ideally is what would be needed. This can be accomplished using two of the 12-volt panels put in series or getting a single 24-volt panel. We find that customer with a 24-volt trolling motor simply won’t have the room on their boat or dock for these size solar panels. In the end it is possible, but most find it not feasible given the space required. [links]

[checkmark91]

Yes, it is possible to attach a small 12v or 24v solar panel to your trolling motor battery pack. A small 6-watt to 12-watt panel can, in most situations, keep an already fully charged battery pack maintained while you are not using them. BatteryStuff.com carries low wattage solar panels meant for this purpose. They will typically output appoximently 750 mA to 5 Amps a day depending on the size you pick. In most situation these type of solar panels can keep a fully charged battery pack topped off and maintained for future use if there is no parasitic load coming off the battery. If there is a parasitic load coming off the battery, we recommend that the panel outputs more than double that load in a 24-hour period. So, if your parasitic draw is 2 amps a day, then your solar panel should be capable of outputting 4 amps a day on the low side. more

[Hepatizon]

First of all a 110VAC to 36VDC power supply is going to be an expensive item, it's also going to be a heavy item as well.

[federk]

Actually, I'm trying to rebuilt a swim current generator, ExerSwim. I've actually talk to Spectrum Product, manufacturer of Exerswim, who uses trolling motor to power their swim current generator, but we would like to eliminate the use of batteries. They say we could do our own modification but couldn't assist us due to prior agreement with their previous owner. more

[zoidial]

There has to be a reason beihnd this idea, so how about you get down to the reason why you feel the need to do this.

[sjalexandre]

Generators are able to put out large amounts of power in the form of AC voltage. here

[Essjay]

Learning how to run your trolling motor all night long could be what makes or breaks a bowfishing trip. Trolling motor run times are highly dependent on available battery capacity.

[ArtemZ]

Common misconception: inverter generators can directly power a trolling motor. This is not entirely true: a power converter is required even though inverter generators can output DC voltage. In reality, inverter generators can only output a very small amount of DC power (typically more

[jiffy]

Approx. Max Amp Draw: 56 Amps

[Qoad Sof]

24V trolling motors are sometimes powered by 24V batteries, but most often are powered by two 12V batteries hooked in series. You can use 2x 12V power converters or 1x 24V power converter to run these generator-powered trolling motors. It is recommended to use 1x 24V power converter.

[cronicleu1]

Re: Run a trolling motor with a generator? more

[MacRohard]

I had figured it wouldn't be that difficult to convert to DC power, but I didn't consider amperage. more

[Tim]

how large of a lake are we talking? you should have easily a few hours of time on the battery when running the trolling motor if you keep it off the highest setting.

[seopro101]

Don't know that much about trolling motors but I'm guessing they are DC voltage and the generator will be putting out AC. If you have a battery charger you can charge the batteries with the generator.