Silvertip
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Re: Question about trolling motor performance
That may be true in an "unloaded" (out of water) situation but placing a load on an electric motor causes current draw to rise dramatically. That draw is not linear as well. Only an ammeter can how what those numbers are.
^^^ I do agree with that, and maybe that's what colby was getting at.
Though battery usage wise, it's going to take the same amount of power (AH) creeping along at speed 1 as compared to wide open at speed 5, with an old speed coil TM.
That may be true in an "unloaded" (out of water) situation but placing a load on an electric motor causes current draw to rise dramatically. That draw is not linear as well. Only an ammeter can how what those numbers are.