Bow Thruster Battery Charging

What about the charger for these batteries.

Bow thruster battery charging.

The bow thruster will be used probably for up to two minutes for maneuvering at the start and end of each trip. The main reasons for that. 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 conclusion is simple.

Battery state of charge soc the second lesson concerns a typical marine topic. The bow thruster can be run for a maximum of three minutes in any hour. My bow thruster battery is connected to the main bank by an adverc 12 12 battery charger. Bow and or stern thrusters and their batteries.

We strongly advise the use of a float charger during winter storage. The battery will be positioned next to the bow thruster which therefore requires approximately an eleven meter cable run for the 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. Note since there is a battery at each end of the charging line you need a fuse or circuit breaker at each end.

This article was written for a 12 volt winch or bow thruster. Is there an easy way to check this out. One way is to. Vetus offers 2 different types of marine battery series with its own characteristics.

This charges the bt battery at about 4 amps once the main batteries are topped up. 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. Since then the trollbridge chargers for 24 volt equipment have been introduced that can handle winches and bow thrusters up to 15 horsepower. Don t put thrusters on the house battery especially don t do so when using bms protected lithium for the house battery.