No power to trolling motor

[dbasketman]

Im not familiar with MK, but you can get your 24v with two wires. Having difficulty understanding your question, receptacle is female, plug is male. Youre not getting ground without wires connected is my thought.

[Bass Cat Boats]

My check was no wires connected to the male plug. All 4 wires connected to the female receptacle. I cant seem to get a good 24V reading to the plug where you would connect the wires from the TM pedal. I may spend the day Saturday trying to swap over to a two wire setup. The current setup of 4 wire to the front was there when I bought it.

[Bass Cat Boats]

You get two 12 volt feeds to the receptacle and the 24 volts is only from the plug back. Theres a jumper inside the plug on the troller and the plate inside the plug is labeled.

[Bass Cat Boats]

Here is what the plug looks likeIn the picture the black wire is the negative lead of the trolling motor and the black with red tracer is the positive lead of the trolling motor. You need to connect the negative of your trolling motor to the negative slot, notice the negative sign on the plug where the black wire is connected, and connect the positive to where the black and red wire is. What happens is the metal strip you see in the plug connects the two 12 volt circuits from the trolling motor batteries in series making 24 volts. You should use a volt ohm meter to test with before connecting the trolling motor leads but this is the jumper that Bass Cat was talking about. Drop me a line if you have any questions, [url=mailto:coffeemp@sfasu.edu]coffeemp@sfasu.edu[/url]Mike

[Bass Cat Boats]

Mike, thats a kudo! Contact Clothing for a Reward. Clothing@BassCat.com

[dbasketman]

I suppose my question is why is he using four wires to the bow ?Are 12/24 trollers even manufactured any longer ?Just asking,,,

[Bass Cat Boats]

The plug is a 12/24 plug. 4 wires wired to the front guessing by factory in 2002. The plug shown by NacCat is exactly how mine makes the crossover. My troller is a 80 lb Fortrex.

[Bass Cat Boats]

The boat was one of the later ones produced with 4 wires to the bow and there is no reason to change the system. The original system setup keeps technicians and the factory able to help based on original set up and not some form or fashion unknown.

[Quik13]

Back up and running. The link between the 12 volt circuits had come loose. Everything tightened down ready to go. Thanks for all the replies!

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