Hello,

Just bought 2 Trojan batteries (SCS200) for my 24V trolling motor. Can you please offer your opinions of these battereis. I don't know what these specs mean but here they are:

http://www.trojan-battery.com/Products/ProductSpec.aspx?Name=SCS200

Capacity Minutes @ 25 amps- 200; @75 amps-52

5hr Rate AH- 95; 20hr rate AH-115

Thanks for your opinion

Larry

The RC of 200 minutes means that that battery will run 200 minutes with a 25 amp draw before is reaches a discharge of 80%. So, with two batteries in series, (series increases the voltage but not the capacity) running your 24 volt trolling motor, if it's drawing 25 amps, it will will run 200 minutes or 3.3 hours before it's considered fully discharged.

The 115 Amp Hour @ 20 hours means that if your 24 volt TM is only drawing 5.75 amps, it will run 20 hours.

The 95 Amp hour @ 5 hours means that if your 24 volt TM is drawing 19 amps it will run 5 hours.

The 75 amps rate is saying the battery will only last 52 minutes, but don't think you really need to worry about that one, unless you're gonna try to do some welding with it.

As for the batteries, they are among the top brands and are very good batteries.

As I've said many times before, as the amp draw on a battery increases, the amp hour capacity decreases, Trojan is just company enough to publish those figures to show you what you can expect. That's why you can not figure a 115 Ah battery running a 40 amp TM full speed is going to last 2.8 hours because with that draw, that battery is probably only a 75 Ah battery and would only last about 1.8 hours.