I ordered the swamp light kit from gatortail and wanted to know does everyone run the lights from their motor battery or get a seperate one for the lights. The lights should pull around 9 amps but I am not sure what the motor pulls. Will the alternator provide enough power for the motor and lights or will I end up with a dead battery. I have a GTR motor.

Crankin' battrey want last long ifin' you are at idle lookin' fo frogs and such .... only a couple hours !!!! Ifin' you runnin' flat out or just idleling a few minutes in the early A.M. goin' DuckBird huntin' you will be awrite......just be shore you gots a good charge on the battrey 'fo goin' out that mornin' !!!

The matr-fact is ..... the chargin' systems on these MudMotorMachineThangs just flat out suck on all the brands and I wish RC, Hoyt, EVT, Stumpgrinders, BayouBoy, and or Rivers would put the invent on somethin' mo better !!!!!

Somebody will probably chime in and post up the old links to the battery discussions.

Bottom line, invest in some sort of a second/backup battery. Notice, there ain't no rope start for the GTR unless you got a 23

The charging system info:


And some other stuff you can do if you want them brighter: