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Magicpaddler Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1321 Location: Chicago Burbs Joined: Jan 7^th, 2004	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #70 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 12:03pm	Quote Print Post
	The protection circuit is not a big project and the parts can be purchased for $12. I no longer have steady enough hands to do a neat job. Enclosure 321 Radio shack 270-1801 $3.19 100K resistor Radioshack 271-1347 $1.49 Protection circuit board www-all-battery.com 32071 $6.97 Connector (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) 015000045 $1.72- $1.45 2 6-32 X1/2” brass screws ?? GLUE Marine Goop ?? (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) Like this only do not put the 2 output screws on the same side of the box. If pliers are dropped on this one they could short out the unit or if in a aluminum canoe they could both touch the side at the same time. And do it neater! This setup is only suitable for light loads of less than 1 amp because of the small leads. The card max continuous current is 4 amps. Charging Car battery charger set to trickle charge and with about 2 ohms in series with the charger. Charge through the protection board using the same connections as the load. 2 .91 ohm 10 Watt RadioShack 10WD91 resistors $1.21 each $2.42 I did not have a suitable resistor so I used about 8 inches of some Nickel-Titanium single strand wire I had for a different project. That is some strange stuff makes a good resistor but hard to make good electrical connection to. Puckster A set of 9 Energizer Ultrimate Lithium will supply 250ma at > 11 volts for 12 hours. They can be purchased at Sams Club for about $17/set.


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mastertangler Inukshuk Offline Posts: 3111 Location: florida Joined: Feb 1^st, 2010	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #71 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 12:15pm	Quote Print Post
	Puckster wrote on Apr 9^th, 2014 at 2:35am: Yeah MT, I have a hard time with this thread. I suppose I am about to make this discussion a complete 180 degrees, but what-the-hell, bring along some more AA batteries and forget-about-it!! I think you're over-analyzing. Puckster Nay way dude.......I brought 16 lithium AA's on last summers trip for only 2 weeks and it wasn't a fishing trip.......Maybe 5 hours a day with a few full days thrown in and I didn't get through the trip. I had some major snafus thrown in however. I slapped on a skid plate before I left which unfortunately was over my thru-hull transducer AND my backlight was left on full power (there are 10 different levels which you control via the power button, who knew?) So on what I would term a fishing trip, where I run a line all day everyday, I wouldn't get to fer down the road without a significant power source. Knowledge is power.......


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mastertangler Inukshuk Offline Posts: 3111 Location: florida Joined: Feb 1^st, 2010	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #72 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 12:18pm	Quote Print Post
	Wow MP, looks awesome. How do I go about getting one?


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Magicpaddler Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1321 Location: Chicago Burbs Joined: Jan 7^th, 2004	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #73 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 2:05pm	Quote Print Post
	MT If your unit were drawing 250ma you should get 12 hours of operations out of 8 or 9 lithium AA’s. The Lithium AA’S are a 3000mAH source the LiPo I referenced below are a 5000mAH rechargeable. So you will only get about 1.5 times as much operations out of the LiPo’s as a set of Lithium AA’s. You will still need more than one of them. mastertangler wrote on Apr 9^th, 2014 at 12:18pm: Wow MP, looks awesome. How do I go about getting one? Have you ever soldered parts to an electronic board? Can you neatly drill holes and assemble small parts in tight spaces? Do you have a car battery charger and can you hook it up through a resistor?


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pine_knot Inukshuk Offline Posts: 908 Location: Springboro, Ohio Joined: Mar 31^st, 2009	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #74 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 9:30pm	Quote Print Post
	My head hurts ....


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pine_knot Inukshuk Offline Posts: 908 Location: Springboro, Ohio Joined: Mar 31^st, 2009	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #75 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 9:32pm	Quote Print Post
	db wrote on Apr 8^th, 2014 at 8:15pm: My multiple firsthand testing with what I use is: #1 - 8AAs will easily last me 2 trips ~5hrs a day so.. 100+ hours. #2 - Forget to turn it off at night in an overturned canoe and I consider myself lucky to hear the low battery warning in the morning. A favor Magic? Can you test the bonehead current draw when forgetting to turn 'em off and pinging the Milky Way all night? Since I'm the weakest link. For me that means 16 LI AAs per trip so about a half pound of batteries... plus FISH LO-K-TOR. Thx, db. That makes sense to me and is exactly what I do each trip...and I didn't hear the low battery alarm before morning too...


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Magicpaddler Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1321 Location: Chicago Burbs Joined: Jan 7^th, 2004	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #76 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 9:42pm	Quote Print Post
	pine_knot wrote on Apr 9^th, 2014 at 9:32pm: db wrote on Apr 8^th, 2014 at 8:15pm: My multiple firsthand testing with what I use is: #1 - 8AAs will easily last me 2 trips ~5hrs a day so.. 100+ hours. #2 - Forget to turn it off at night in an overturned canoe and I consider myself lucky to hear the low battery warning in the morning. A favor Magic? Can you test the bonehead current draw when forgetting to turn 'em off and pinging the Milky Way all night? Since I'm the weakest link. For me that means 16 LI AAs per trip so about a half pound of batteries... plus FISH LO-K-TOR. Thx, db. That makes sense to me and is exactly what I do each trip...and I didn't hear the low battery alarm before morning too... That is why I prefer a couple of sets of batteries rather than one large set. Any one catch what I used for a resistor in the post below?


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Magicpaddler Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1321 Location: Chicago Burbs Joined: Jan 7^th, 2004	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #77 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 11:11pm	Quote Print Post
	Thanks to Quentin and zski for the loan of fish detectors. About 2 hours taking data on Whalon puddle and then plotting it up and this is what I get. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) So the deeper you go the more current you draw but for most detectors not more than 20%. By the way the detector that I liked the best is the Lowrence X-4


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Puckster Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1208 Location: St. Paul, Minnesota Joined: Feb 10^th, 2009	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #78 - Apr 10^th, 2014 at 2:56am	Quote Print Post
	My calculations: Take the square root of your mother's hat size and divide it into the weight of your fish locator = the number of LI AA's to bring on a trip. puckster


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zski Inukshuk Offline Posts: 447 Location: IL Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010	Re: Depth finder power source Reply #79 - Apr 10^th, 2014 at 7:09am	Quote Print Post
	MP: So how deep does that "Whalon puddle" actually get?


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