Today I look at a new Regal LX4 with a Yamaha F250 so you can see the best way to hook up 2 batteries with a single engine. Thanks for watching. Need Parts? Click The Link Below for a discount shareasale.com...
Battery connections to 2 switches confuses the heck out of me. I liked your simple explanation. My Grady Marlin has 4 batteries but they don't devide into start and house. Some house is on each bank of 2. Drives me to distraction. Wish they would isolate the functions. 2 engines, 4 batteries and 2 switches. Sheesh.
Super informativ ! Like little insight in to multiple drawings at the end 😂That’s how it is doing RU-vid 👊 to isolate the start battery from the housing is just essential 😉
I tried to do something different with the 5 minute Friday but it was to hard to do when I am always working. RU-vid is a living organism. Always changing and evolving. Like the creators 😅
@@JustinLeeMarine yea, I noticed you stopped doing those. But that’s the way it has to be..you just figure it out as you go along. The RU-vid thing has to work alongside our jobs. Changing ideas from one episode to the next is just the nature of being a RU-vidr I guess 😅!
For this schematic to work and charge the house battery the switch must be set on combine. This is set up to carry the house load if the starter battery is fully charge and the acr redirects the charge to the house load not the house battery. So if the switch is set on combined the house load and the house battery are both connected.
Nice and short and informative-I’m digging Five Minute Friday. How difficult would it be to add a second house battery, and would the system just recognize the added storage capacity?
Great video...really explains it. I have a few questions. 1. The way that is setup, it's going to automatically charge both batteries, right? When the engine is off, the isolator will only be using the starting battery when starting, but when it senses a positive charge coming in (from the engine's stator), it will open and allow charging to both batteries. Do I have this right? 2. Can the 2 batteries be different types? For example, a flooded starting battery and an AGM deep cycle battery? Thanks.
Not sure if you are still monitoring this but appreciate the video! Do you like or dislike removing the acr and running an auxiliary lead to the Yamaha 200 for the backup? So both batts can be charged while powered? Thx!
Hi. Thank you for this informative video. Now when I get home and have switched the ACR to Off. The green light flashes every 15 seconds standby mode. Will this drain either battery if the boat is not run for a few weeks?? How can I overcome this parasitic draw?? How did you wire the on off switch to completely turn off the ACR when away from the boat???
You just have to wire the small power wire and the main power wire from the ACR to the common on the battery switch. Then it turns off with the battery switch. The little LED light takes a long time to kill a battery. I wouldn't worry about it too much unless you are leaving the boat for over a month without a battery charger.
Hello so im new to all this and boting if i just always have it on ON will it charge both batteries? And when is it recommended to put switch on combine batteries. Reason i ask already got check engine light on due to low battery and one new battery drained to where it damaged it
Hi, I have 257 fishermen single engine with 2 batteries and 1 switch selector for 1 2 and 1+2 batteries, I’m going to install a battery charger which battery is the house battery
We have the same set up. But after 15 minutes can't start the motor without switching to combine. New boat, new batteries. Twin simrads, jl audio system. Wtf??