DO NOT hook them up as you described,that will double the voltage and
probably burn out a lot of things,You could hook the pos to the pos and neg
to neg.That will charge both at the same time.However it is not a good
solution.If one battery goes bad it will drain the other one.The correct
thing is to buy a battery switch .you can then select one at a time to
charge, or both at the same time with the switch,
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Okay - I'm new to boating, just bought my first. The guy I bought it
from has two batteries in the boat - a deep-cycle marine battery for
the starter, and a regular car and truck battery for the tilt motor,
lights, radio, etc. (both are 12 volt). The marine battery charges
itself from the magnets, but right now, the car battery just runs
itself down and has to be recharged frequently.

This doesn't seem efficient. Can I hook the batteries in together so
that the magnets are charging both at the same time? Or is it bad to
hook a marine and car/truck battery together? If I understand
batteries (and I'm not sure that I do!) I could connect the positive
terminal of the marine to the negative of the car/truck and that'd do
it. Is that right? Or would that screw with the voltage?

How should I approach this?

Matt