Cheaper Lithium for FFS shuttl

[GSM]

Trying to piece together a FFS shuttle for ice fishing. Having a tough time getting past the battery prices at Scheels. I’ve looked on Amazon and online, but can’t find one with the same hookups/connections as the ones at Scheels. Anyone have any luck with some less expensive options? Going with Lowrance active target 2 since I have the screen already. Thanks

 

[guywhofishes]

Sorry - I can’t ever not read “FFS” without saying the term it was an abbreviation for long before sonar.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Im running my lights and submersible camera from this and it seems to work fine. Not sure how many AH you need for FFS tho, this might not be big enough for you.

 

[shorthairsrus]

Trying to piece together a FFS shuttle for ice fishing. Having a tough time getting past the battery prices at Scheels. I’ve looked on Amazon and online, but can’t find one with the same hookups/connections as the ones at Scheels. Anyone have any luck with some less expensive options? Going with Lowrance active target 2 since I have the screen already. Thanks

Its just like wet batteries the same dude makes them over in china. I think i have 2 BTRs never ran out of juice once - one in the boat and the other for ice. As to the connections you custom them to fit if they dont. I dont remember having anything but wire on the connections with the garmin 34.

 

[5575]

I have had 5 years of trouble free use with my eco-worthy 30ah, I have a 50ah I can velcro on the rear but its heavy with the 12 inch garmin. Any LifePO4 will do just fine for you i'm sure. This is a new cheap one and it looks like the right shuttle size.

Amazon product

 

[tdismydog]

Trying to piece together a FFS shuttle for ice fishing. Having a tough time getting past the battery prices at Scheels. I’ve looked on Amazon and online, but can’t find one with the same hookups/connections as the ones at Scheels. Anyone have any luck with some less expensive options? Going with Lowrance active target 2 since I have the screen already. Thanks

I have an active target 2 with the vexilar vision shuttle(to start). I would like to tell you there is a better cheap option on amazon, but I couldnt find it. Starting with the spade hookups the the biggest LifePo4 I could find was a 20ah battery, about 50 bucks. It lasted around 2 hours with my set up. My next solution was to have it constantly charging with a solar panel so I got a maintenance size off of amazon about 80 bucks. It extended the time to about 3.5 hours before it couldnt keep up. Solution number 3, buy a different shuttle because the vision's battery room SUCKS. Did that about 200 bucks. Put a bigger battery in the shuttle found some spade adapters and still only got about a 1/2 days use out of the thing.
I broke down and bought the amped 14.8V 32 Ah battery and went 2 day with out a charge.....So my advice buy the nice one right away and do not buy thr vision shuttle.

 

[GSM]

I have had 5 years of trouble free use with my eco-worthy 30ah, I have a 50ah I can velcro on the rear but its heavy with the 12 inch garmin. Any LifePO4 will do just fine for you i'm sure. This is a new cheap one and it looks like the right shuttle size.

Amazon product

Can you retry the link?

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Beings I can't justify a FFS setup I haven't really paid attention to all the prices. So you have what, $1,500-3,500 setup and you are worried about $275-375 for a battery to actually use it? Do you have to push your vehicle down the hill and pop the clutch to start it?