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Thanks. Im glad the hookup is right. I do have a charger but its a dual bank. Maybe I will sell it and get a triple. I generally throw my portable charger on the motor and accessory battery which is sort of in-convenent. I noticed last year that the red indicator lights on the dual bank charger that progressively show the charge level and then turn green when there fully charged always would not reach full charge and turn green on one battery. I swithch the charger around and the problem followed the battery. So maybe they have seen there better days. I did check the water level in them last fall and all was well. Less than 2 years seems a little less than I expect however for batery live based on the amount that I used it. I only had the boat out 6 or 8 times last year. The batteries were one year old when I got the boat. The batteries are exide nautilis. Im not sure how good of a battery the exides are.

The boats that I have had previously were simple enough that one deep cycle battery ran everything. I bought my first bass boat last summer and didnt really pay too much attention at the time to familiarize myself with the wiring and battery connections too much but now that I have, Ive got some questions. Theres 3 batteries. 2 deep cycles for the trolling motor an one battery for the motor and other electronics. I verified that the 2 trolling motor batteries are indeed only connected to the trolling motor. The battery that connects to the outboard motor, is also connected to all the electronics in the boat which includes the tilt/trim, all the gages, bilge pumps, livewell fill and aereator pumps, flasher, front and rear sonar. The question is, should the battery that starts the outboard also be the one that runs all the electronics? It seems to me that I am at risk if I am running livewell pumps and sonar units all day that I might run down the battery and get stuck. Shouldnt the deep cycle batteries that run the trolling motor also run most of the electronics and pumps? Also. The batteries are only 2 years old. New June 2004. They worked fine last year. Fish all day. I kept them charged after each outing and charged them up fully before winter and didnt recharge them at all during the course of the winter. Now I cant seem to get them to take a charge. They worked fine last year. Could they be that shot already that they wont take a charge? Only 2 years old with not too heavy of useage? thanks,