You’re Overpaying for Trolling Motor Batteries (Lithium Battery Review)

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earlier this year I got this lithium trolling motor battery but I waited 6 months to do a video review on it frankly because I couldn’t believe the price point most fishermen I think at this point they’re well aware of the advantages and the only reason they haven’t switched is because of price bigname brands that I was aware of if I was replacing a 12volt lead acid battery you’re going from a battery that cost you know $120 to $17 and you’re replacing with a battery that cost $6 $700 if you’re talking about a 24v system and a bigger trolling motor then you’re talking about even more money but the price point on this I couldn’t believe which is why I waited 6 months again to do this video the battery I was replacing with this lead acid battery yes it’s covered in fish scales long story but it was a very good battery it’s a 12vt 130 amp hour I think it retailed for about $170 when I bought it at public lands and it served me well for a few years but this is much better and I’ll tell you why other than weight which is one of the most well-known advantages of the lithium but in my opinion not the most important one this one weighed 22 lb the battery I replaced weighed 58 lb and that’s you know especially important for smaller boats in say a kayak a fishing kayak or a canoe that can be really really important but the real advantage to me comes down to power output when you’re running a lithium battery as you go from 100% charge all the way down to 0% and it dies you’re getting the same power output it is literally making your trolling motor run just as fast when it’s at 20% charge as when it’s 100% until it finally dies which means effectively you can run it a lot longer because if you’ve used these lead acid type of batteries you’ll know that as you discharge that battery it gets weaker and weaker and weaker so much so that by the time you get to 50% charge or below it becomes almost useless which is why I was able to replace 130 amp hour with a 100 amp hour battery theoretically I could actually replace a 200 power battery because of the fact that you can run these all the way down to zero the third Advantage which is one of the biggest ones in my opinion is the lithium batteries should last a lot longer they they have a lot more charge discharge cycles that they can go through in the life of the battery so where a lead acid battery might last you 2 3 years depending on how much you fish the lithium battery should last you 10 years now obviously I didn’t wait 10 years to do this video so I can’t personally couch for that but that by all accounts is a fundamental property of lithium batteries and that to me almost made the $6,700 worth it which I didn’t spend but if you do the math you know if you’re going through 3 four five six lead acid batteries by the time your lithium’s done will it paid for itself even not counting the weight savings and the fact that you could use it for longer on the water but what shocked me was the fact that this battery retails for $280 and it’s replacing a lead acid battery that that costs more than half of that so it was almost unbelievable to me which is why I was like something must be wrong with this so I got on the water I used it I’ve recharged it many times I have sat and spot locked in Wind when I go out fishing especially if I’m Musky fishing or something I will be fishing for 12 14 hours I will fish sun up to sun down and when I had my le acid battery that meant that if it was a windy day I had to constantly play the wind I had to always position my boat if it was a decent wind to do the drift With the Wind so I can minimize how much I was on the pedal but with this battery I’ve been I’ve really tested it I’ve been spot locking all day in high winds where it’s going speed you know five six out of 10 max speed for just holding it at that speed for a long time and I have yet to kill this battery on the water and it has weight Savings in my boat to me at this point at that price it’s well worth the investment one disadvantage of the lithium if you’re not aware you do need a different type of charger if you try to use the type of charger you’re using for your lead acid battery probably not going to be able to fully charge your lithium battery you may even run into some other problems so I wouldn’t recommend that so you will need a different type of charger a battery charger specifically for your lithium battery so that is a onetime investment that if you’re making the switch for the first time you’ll have to get the one I got was also from lithium time and I think cost uh about 115 to maybe at most $150 total investment for the lithium time charger and this battery which again is just a 12vt so I have a smaller boat so that works for me would be around $400 total but again you know if you’re trying to use your trolling motor all day your lead acid battery probably cost close to $200 at this point if you have a you know 130 to 200 amp hour battery to run a 55 thrust trolling motor another advantage that I was not aware of that I’m now aware of is these charge remarkably fast you know to if I had this lead acid battery that I used to have fully depleted it would take four five 6 7 8 hours I don’t know I basically have to charge it overnight but this thing if I use this battery all day and put it on the charger I couldn’t believe how fast it was fully charged within 2 hours you have this thing fully charged or one of those lithiums and that’s if you’ve you know run it all day which is a big Advantage you know you charge it over dinner and it’s good to go again again but again the biggest advantages are the fact that it’s giving you full out power output all day and the overall lifetime of the battery is much much longer said right now this battery retails at $280 it’s being advertised as if that’s 50% off but that price has been advertised for over a year so I’m pretty sure it’s just one of those marketing things that is the price which is what I found so unbelievable $280 you could save an additional 3% on that battery or the 24 volt or any or the charger with discount code absolute you’ll you’ll save an additional $30 to $40 on this battery using that discount code but again I I wasn’t just going to do a review on this from one time out the price was so so bizarre to me that I had to get some significant time on the water I I fish at least once twice a week and when I do fish at least one of those days is is usually a full day on the boat of running the trolling motor so I feel like I’m I’m I’m fairly confident that this is the real deal I hope you found this video informative thank you for watching and stay tuned for the next video because we are going to Canada tomorrow in the French River to fish for the biggest muskies I’ve ever seen my personal best came from there 54 iner a number of years ago so it’s the true land of giants I’ll be running the trolling motor battery a lot and hopefully catching some big fish thanks for watching stay tuned for the next one [Music]