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Joetorres

08-22-2015 06:40 PM

Garmin fishfinder draining battery

Ok so I put a new fishfinder on my kayak it's a echomaps 74sv garmin. I have a 12volt 8ah battery it only lasted like 45 minutes on and then the battery died .. what type of battery should I get to run this fishfinder on my kayak

Jim Sammons LJKF

08-23-2015 08:17 AM

Sounds to me like you got a bad battery or a bad charger.
That battery should run your finder just fine.

Hunters Pa

08-23-2015 09:28 AM

Running with the backlight on drains it faster. Run something else on that battery to make sure it is not bad

YTHunter

08-23-2015 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Sammons LJKF (Post 238923)

Sounds to me like you got a bad battery or a bad charger.
That battery should run your finder just fine.

x2

I have a Garmin 70dv and a 10ah battery and I'm getting over 8 hrs easily

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