JROMY

How did Powerplay set up their battery switches? I know every other boat out there, it is recommended to run the boat with one switch on 1 and one switch on 2 (which runs each motor off it's own battery), unless you own a Cigarette. Cigarettes are wired so that with both switches on 1, each motor is powered off it's own battery. Does anyone know for sure on this one?

cowisl

I also was wondering about this. My boat has three batteries. I am assuming one battery runs the stereo/aux??

dkwestern

I have 3 batts, 3 engines, I run them all on Both. Works so far.???

Maybe ED can enlighten us. ED you out there?

JROMY

Ed seems to be MIA - I'm hoping he gets back sometime soon to answer a couple questions. I talked to John Tomlinson about the batteries and he agreed with running the one battery on 1 and the other on 2 if the boat was wired that way... but....wasn't sure if Powerplay set it up this way or did it like Cigarette which he confirmed is wired differently. He said that if you see two parallel leads between switches, that should mean the batteries are wired in the 1 on one motor, 2 on another. If there is a single parallel lead, most likely they are wired like Cigarette, where the 1 switch on the port means 1 battery on the port side is for the port engine, and the 1 switch on the starboard means 1 battery on the starboard side is for the starboard engine. I guess if all else fails, I run on both like everyone has done forever, and everything should work fine, but I am curious. It sounds like by using the switches the correct way, you build in a little bit more of a safety margin against having dead batteries.

cowisl

Can you tell with the pic I posted?

JROMY

I am no electrical engineer, but yours looks just like mine (except for the third switch), which I suspect has one switch set for one side, and 2 for the other. I am going to try screwing around with it some this weekend and see if I can figure it out.

ActiveFun

I would love to hear the answer to this also.

Indy

Try posting this in the Tech forum, you'll get more hits than in this forum.

ActiveFun

One battery works each motor. If you shut one switch off, you get no power to that corresponding engine. Electronics seems to be connected to starboard switch on my boat. I don't understand what the switch positions are for. 1, 2, all?? How should you have them while running the boat, then conserve the other battery while anchored and listening to the stereo.

JROMY

I just posted this in the tech section, so we'll see what happens. My electronics are also all fed off the starboard switch (which I assume is fed off the starboard battery). I haven't tried starting the engines yet using the different positions. Active- did you actually start the motors and try different switch positions?