My new (old) boat

[wallyworld]

Sorry your season was pretty much a bust this year    Hope next year everything will work out better for you 

[Mac Attack]

Sorry your season was pretty much a bust this year    Hope next year everything will work out better for you 

Yea, only fished from the boat twice.
Next year should be a whole lot better.
Still more work to do to it but at least I can fish with it now.

[wallyworld]

How's the knee doing ?

[Mac Attack]

How's the knee doing ?

Good - will need surgery but I will wait as long as possible.
Thanks.

[Mac Attack]

Mounted my new (music) radio today, utilizing the nice weather.
Next week the electric winch is supposed to show up.
I’ll get her into storage in the next couple weeks or so.
My Lund fit in the garage.
Made it nice to do work on it.
This one would need a pole barn.

[Mac Attack]

Mounted the new electric winch this afternoon.
Bought a 750 CCA deep cycle for it at Samsclub and it powers it without issues.
I will leave the battery on a Battery Tender under the bench in the garage this winter.
The battery tray got it's 2nd coat of black paint today and there's 3 coats of good primer on it before I started laying down the black.
I'll put at least one more coat on - I'll use the can up and add a 4th if there's enough.
The boat goes into the storage facility tomorrow.
Tonight I ran the pumps and emptied the rain water out of the 2 fish boxes - they always fill.
Then dumped a gallon of pink stuff in each and ran that thru the pumps and out.
She's ready to go away for the winter.

C-ME called today about the Ulterra.
It appears that Minn Kota is waiting for a specific part they have had troubles getting.
A part that's used on all Ulterra's.
They are now saying they expect the parts in mid to late November.
So maybe the Ulterra will arrive in December at C-ME.
That's ok.
I'll het it mounted in the spring when I pull it out the end of March or early April depending on the weather.

[Mac Attack]

The Minn Kota Ulterra came in today so I went down and picked it up.
That beast is heavy!!!
Now it sits in the garage till I pull the boat out of storage next March or April.

Jeff is still negotiating with the guy in China on the lithium iron deep cycle battery and charger.
36 volt 150AH unit with a 30amp charger.
Nice battery for sure and it should give us plenty of time on the water between charges I'm hoping.
Weight is only about 122 lbs vs almost 300 lbs if we went with lead acid.
And the space reduction is rediculous.
Only slightly larger than a series 31 battery.
If what they are saying is true, we should get 15+ yrs out of it.
I'll probably be dead before the battery dies.

[Jethro]

Updates on this thread?

how did you mount the battery for your electric winch? I have a new truck and the harness for my winch went with it. I have new wire/harness, but I am considering going your route and not using the truck battery, and mounting a deep cycle to the trailer. Just wondering what you did for a mount.

The battery... you got me seriously jealous here. In the other thread you say it's a 200ah battery. You getting this from Jeff at Amped Outdoors? How much is something like that? He only shows a 100ah 36v battery on his site. It's going to be crazy more efficient than lead acids and also more amp hours by FAR. I NEED IT

[Mac Attack]

Geoff -

The boat is at my buddy's machine shop having the kicker bracket reinforced for trailering and also the Ulterra install.
I should get it back late this week or early next week.
Bug me if I don't post photos for you.

Here is what I used to mount the battery to the trialer tongue -

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KTG3M6O/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


I bought the LiFePo4 battery and chargers here -

https://www.lithium-battery-factory.com/product/36v-200ah-lithium-rv-batteries/#body_sele


Also comes with a bluetooth BMS that workjs thru an app on my smartphone so I can see status when using and/or charging

Total was like $2600 which included Paypal charges, shipping, the battery, and the 3 chargers.

Guy there is Carl Wu
Here is his email addy - [email protected]
He is very nice and helpful.
Responds quickly and "somewhat" open to negotiating final price.
I got him to cut the Paypal chages in half and throw in the bluetooth.
But be advised that his prices are far lower than the rest and he knows it.
I am on a FB lithium battery group and he is one of two people they all rave about.
I was really worried about sending all this cash to China for something that will take 2-3 months to get.
But so far...........
Of course I'm still waiting for the battery.

[Jethro]

Oh yeah, I'll look forward to seeing how you got the Ulterra mounted.

That battery box looks great, I didn't know they made such a thing.

I think I will just "suffer" with what I have until they need replacing and hopefully the cost will come down by then. Hope you get it soon, you'll probably be looking to troll win the near future!

[Mac Attack]

Oh yeah, I'll look forward to seeing how you got the Ulterra mounted.

That battery box looks great, I didn't know they made such a thing.

I think I will just "suffer" with what I have until they need replacing and hopefully the cost will come down by then. Hope you get it soon, you'll probably be looking to troll win the near future!

I wanted to troll with things for the past couple/few weeks.
And Lake O has been good - guys are getting out.
But I know my buddy will be late get5ting me the boat.
I can use it with the kicker, but yea, itching to try the Ulterra.
But the battery won't be here for a few more weeks yet.
Tick tock

[Mac Attack]

Just boaught the 2 new starting batteries for the boat.
One of the old ones was shot and the 2nd was suspect, so we decided to get 2 new ones.
I have been waiting patiently for them to go on sale at Samsclub, as they do each spring.
They are $79/each and typically go on sale for $20 off.
Couldn't wait any longer as I'm supposed to get the boat back from my buddy's machine shop in the next couple days so we went and bought them today.
You watch.
Tomorrow they will go on sale.

[Jethro]

Just boaught the 2 new starting batteries for the boat.
One of the old ones was shot and the 2nd was suspect, so we decided to get 2 new ones.
I have been waiting patiently for them to go on sale at Samsclub, as they do each spring.
They are $79/each and typically go on sale for $20 off.
Couldn't wait any longer as I'm supposed to get the boat back from my buddy's machine shop in the next couple days so we went and bought them today.
You watch.
Tomorrow they will go on sale.

$79 isn't that bad anyway. Is it a 24v starter? Or you just get two and wire them parallel?

[Mac Attack]

$79 isn't that bad anyway. Is it a 24v starter? Or you just get two and wire them parallel?

12VDC starter and system.
These boats have 2 batteries
One main and a backup
With a battery selector switch to chose which one you want

[Jethro]

Oh that makes sense, it's got a cabin.