Minn-Kota Maxxum 44 not running

dantheman82

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I have a Minn-Kota Maxxum 44 Bow Mount T/M. After running it continuously for a few minutes it shuts off and will not start back up. The only thing I notice is a clicking in the foot pedal. It was doing this a couple weeks ago so I replaced the Female plug on the bow of my boat and it worked fine until last night when it shut off again. Do you have any suggestions on where I can look or what I can do to troubleshoot this problem?
 

gm280

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Well :welcome: dantheman82 to iboats. Always glad to have a new member...

Okay the first thing you need to do is check to make sure you have power to the receptacle. If you own a meter use it to test for voltage at the trolling motor receptacle. If there is voltage there see if it is there when you try to run the trolling motor. If the voltage drops out, you have a corroded connection or wire from that receptacle to the battery. If you don't find any voltage at the receptacle you now found your problem with the wiring from the battery to the receptacle. Could even be a breaker at the battery that is popped or bad.

If the voltage stays when trying to run the trolling motor, then you have isolated your problem to the trolling motor itself. Now if you remove the head cover you could jumper wires from a battery directly to the wires going to the foot section. That will verify the motor itself is good or bad.

I don't have your trolling motor schematic diagram in front of me, so there could be more then two wires going to the motor, I really don't know about that model. One should be black. That will be the common ground wire, for lack of a more correct word. Connect the black wire from the battery to that one, and then touch the red wire from the battery to each of the other wires one at a time to so see if they run the motor. If so, you now have isolated the problem to the trolling motor head unit. If none of the wire run the motor, you have now found out your motor foot needs repaired.

Do those tests and come back and report what you find. JMHO
 

Silvertip

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If there is a circuit breaker near the positive terminal on the battery it may be it is opening up due to an over-current condition. Running for prolonged periods are high speed settings could trip the breaker if it is the incorrect value. When the motor quits, check for voltage at the motor side of the breaker. If no voltage, check the battery side of the breaker. If there is voltage the breaker is tripping. If not, there is a wiring problem.
 
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