Trolling motor wiring

[coreyprashaw]

Hi all need some help here bad! Just bought a used skeeter bass boat and wanted to put my minn kota edge bow mount on it. it's 24v and i just took it off of my other boat and it worked. i wanted to use the male and female plugs from the skeeter. on it before was a 12/24v motorguide. the receptacle says it's 12/24v. so i figured it would work. Looking at the back of the receptacle there are two positives and one negative wire. this follows all the way back to the back compartment with the batteries. i bought the boat without batteries so i wasn't able to see how it was previously wired. i've always had one positive one negative and a jumper cable between the batteries. The trolling motor doesn't spin at all so it doesn't seem like it's got any power at all. the previous trolling motor did work. I've tried this with a positive on both batteries, both positives on a single battery. No clue. I have a tournament in a few days and need a trolling motor! HALP!

 

[coreyprashaw]

trolling motor wiring

[FONT=Bitstream Vera Serif, Times New Roman, serif]i have two positives coming from the receptacle of my trolling motor to the battery box. two positives and one negative. it had a 12/24v trolling motor on it. i'm putting a straight 24v on it and have no clue how to wire it. furthermore, i can't find the breaker. i have both positives from the trolling motor on battery A's positive. then i have the negative from trolling motor on battery B. Then a jumper from A's negative to B's positive. It's not working.[/FONT]

 

[gm280]

:welcome: to iboats coreyprasaw. Always nice to have a new member...

Depending on the current requirements of your new trolling motor and the wire gauge of the wires already installed, you can use only one positive wire and one negative wire from the batteries. The reason for two positive and only one negative was to allow the option to select 12 or 24 volt setup. But since your TM is only 24 volt, then you only need two wires.

Connect a jumper wire (capable to carry the TM's current demands) from battery A positive terminal to battery B negative terminal. Then use battery A negative to go to the trolling motor and battery B positive terminal to the trolling motor and you should be good to go. Just make certain that the length and gauge sizes are good enough to carry the max current that the trolling motor requires and you should have any problems. JMHO

 

[alldodge]

Should be wired like this

 

[jbcurt00]

Merged w existing topic in the Trolling motor forum

Please dont start multiple topics on the same subject

 

[Silvertip]

Just pretend the yellow wire in the diagram above is not there and wire the batteries as shown. Then make sure the red and black wires in the plug match the red and black in the receptacle. Then go boating. The yellow wires are just going along for the ride at this point.