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Charging Lithium Batteries in Series #15053149 04/21/24 06:14 PM
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If I have two 12V 50 AH Lithium batteries connected in series to power a 24 V trolling motor, how would I connect the 12V on- board charger connections to charge both batteries simultaneously?

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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15053225 04/21/24 07:41 PM
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As long as you have a lithium charger , nothing changes as you hook up the batteries .


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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15053232 04/21/24 07:52 PM
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Have at least a two bank charger and connect a bank to each battery, same as any other batteries.

Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15053238 04/21/24 07:58 PM
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Some chargers will charge lithium and wet cells , AGM at the same time .


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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15053576 04/22/24 10:23 AM
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Ebay has some ionic battery chargers , 3 bank is $50.00 , 4 bank is $75.00


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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15053615 04/22/24 11:58 AM
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Thanks y'all. thumb


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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15053801 04/22/24 03:16 PM
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noco genius and minnkota pc chargers will do lithium, my pc does it in agm mode

Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15055722 04/24/24 02:48 PM
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Well my cheaper Ionic Lithium refub trolling battery took a dump , gamble is i think i lost . Was down to 49 % and about 10min it shut down , no bluetooth . No nothing.
Short story when i got it was reading 12 v 48 ah , so i called cust service , they said to drop it down to 20% , and it would fix it . So it on the charger and it was reading 1% 46 ah , 13 cycles , 4 hrs to charge
Had to come in after a hour

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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15056153 04/25/24 08:32 AM
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Checked Refub Ionic battery this morning and it read 100% 12 v 46 ah , so i loss 2 more ah . So that was a waste of $ 175 .00 ,
only used it twice , 30 day warranty , now i don't have any warranty they should have junked this one ,

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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15056159 04/25/24 10:32 AM
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I'd do a capacity test on it. The apps aren't always the most accurate and have been an on-going challenge across most brands.

Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15056170 04/25/24 10:49 AM
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4 hours of use and it quit's completely , dead as a dumb bell .


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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15056340 04/25/24 04:14 PM
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Sounds like you have a bad cell in there or the bms is not working.


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Originally Posted by Bandit 200 XP
4 hours of use and it quit's completely , dead as a dumb bell .




Running what device?

Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15056654 04/25/24 09:51 PM
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Trolling motor


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Re: Charging Lithium Batteries in Series [Re: T Bird] #15056698 04/25/24 10:14 PM
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Easy equation.

Amp hour capacity of battery divided by max amp draw of the unit your powering = Run time.

Example

Two 100 AH 12V batteries in series = 200 AH divided by (say a trolling motor with 50 AH max draw) = a run time of 4 hours.

If you're running the trolling at half speed setting then that would be a 25 AH draw and you'd get 8 hours run time.


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