Bow Thruster Battery Charging

This article was written for a 12 volt winch or bow thruster.

Bow thruster battery charging. I can t find one anywhere close to the batteries and i m wondering if maybe there is a problem with the battery charger that serves these batteries. Since then the trollbridge chargers for 24 volt equipment have been introduced that can handle winches and bow thrusters up to 15 horsepower. Has worked well for many years and now a windlass is connected to the bt as i can t see both being used at the same time unless i grow an extra pair of arms. A starter battery can take a short heavy load called cca cold cranking amps but a domestic battery is designed to take a long deep discharge at a lower amperage but over several.

The bow thruster will be used probably for up to two minutes for maneuvering at the start and end of each trip. Is there an easy way to check this out. The bow thruster can be run for a maximum of three minutes in any hour. This charges the bt battery at about 4 amps once the main batteries are topped up.

The main reasons for that. We strongly advise the use of a float charger during winter storage. What about the charger for these batteries. Bow and or stern thrusters and their batteries.

During the boating season the batteries are able to supply both small constant loads as well as heavy but short loads for the use of a bow thruster. My bow thruster battery is connected to the main bank by an adverc 12 12 battery charger. Don t put thrusters on the house battery especially don t do so when using bms protected lithium for the house battery. The conclusion is simple.

Sorry to be late on this thread but the bow thruster must be on the starter battery unless it has its own battery on a separate circuit with a charge splitter. Vetus offers 2 different types of marine battery series with its own characteristics. Note since there is a battery at each end of the charging line you need a fuse or circuit breaker at each end. I ve seen this matter of re charging bow thruster batteries handled several ways.