Alumacraft Trolling Motor Wiring

[lewistown]

I just recently bought an Alumacraft Navigator CS 165 2006 model and was wondering how to wire the trolling batteries for a 24 volt system. It has a red wire, orange wire, with a circiut breaker on each of those. It also has a black wire, and a black wire with grey tracer. Neither of these have circuit breakers. I assume the red and orange connect to positive of either battery, and the black and black with tracer are negative. I am wondering if there is a sequence to connect them as far as does it matter which black wire goes with the red wire and which one goes with the orange wire, or does it make any difference. I'm assuming it does but the book doesn't say anything about that (at least not what I've seen).Also do I have to jumper them to connect in series or does the boat have a junction box and does it there (make 24 volts)? Thank you in advance for all your answers.

John

 

[Silvertip]

Re: Alumacraft Trolling Motor Wiring

Yes -- it makes a difference which ground wire goes with which red and orange wire. The properly paired wires should be contained in plastic flex tubing unless some genius removed it. You also need a 12/24 plug to match the receptacle at the bow. That plug has a jumper in it to make it a 12 or 24 volt system.

 

[lewistown]

Re: Alumacraft Trolling Motor Wiring

Thank you for the reply. Mine are all in one flex tubing so I may have to check continuity to figure out which ones go together, unless they are paired together farther back under the flex tubing.

John

 

[Silvertip]

Re: Alumacraft Trolling Motor Wiring

Typically the red wire will pair with the black that has NO tracer. The orange will pair with the black WITH the tracer. Is there a three or four terminal twist lock style connector up front?

 

[lewistown]

Re: Alumacraft Trolling Motor Wiring

No it has a four pin push in receptacle. The plug I have only has two wires and two actual connectors in the plug, the other two holes have no connectors in them, they are just blank holes. I have ordered the twist in connector that has a built in jumper to make 24 volt. I hope that solves my problem as to getting 24 volts there. It also will simplify connections in battery box as they will be connected as two 12 volt batteries without a jumper. Thanks for all the input from everyone.

John

 

[Silvertip]

Re: Alumacraft Trolling Motor Wiring

You could have spared the problem of replacing the connector and just wired the batteries in series. That would leave only two wires up front and your existing plug could be used. This is why details are always helpful rather than having us pull information. No modifications to the existing wiring would be necessary - it would just use the existing wires differently and two would not be used.

 

[castntroll]

what is the deal with having the red and orange with breakers ? does one set go to one battery and one to the other battery ? h ave 2 looms containing red and orange

 

[GA_Boater]

what is the deal with having the red and orange with breakers ? does one set go to one battery and one to the other battery ? h ave 2 looms containing red and orange

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