B. White
Senior Member
I bought a used 1442 last week with a 24v trolling motor. The person who I bought it from had not used it very much and I believe it was his first boat, so he was not intimately familiar with it. The lights did not work and all connections were pretty corroded. I cleaned them up and added new batteries and everything worked ok.
The wiring to the batteries is not marked well at all, and I'm basing some of what goes where on the wire length. Some will not reach the 2nd battery, so what is I think is correct is a process of elimination, if it was originally wired correctly. The jumper is connected correctly.
I have not owned anything but a kayak in the last 12-15 years, but based on memory from a Bass Tracker I had in the 80's, hitting the switch on a 70lb motor turned sideways should just about throw me off the front casting deck. It moves pretty good, but not that much torque, so my instinct is it's running on 12v. There are several places where *** and neg wires are connected when I flip the foot control over. I probed with a tester and only got an output in one spot and it was 12v.
It has had aluminum flooring added and the wiring runs through pvc pipe in non-accessible locations, except in couple of spots. There is a 4 switch panel that controls lighting, but the trolling motor doesn't seem to be wired through it and I don't see any fuses. Switches control lighting and bilge. TM works no matter what.
Is there a simple way to test and troubleshoot connections at the batteries without burning anything up? If not, it may be easier to start from scratch and rewire the trolling motor.
The wiring to the batteries is not marked well at all, and I'm basing some of what goes where on the wire length. Some will not reach the 2nd battery, so what is I think is correct is a process of elimination, if it was originally wired correctly. The jumper is connected correctly.
I have not owned anything but a kayak in the last 12-15 years, but based on memory from a Bass Tracker I had in the 80's, hitting the switch on a 70lb motor turned sideways should just about throw me off the front casting deck. It moves pretty good, but not that much torque, so my instinct is it's running on 12v. There are several places where *** and neg wires are connected when I flip the foot control over. I probed with a tester and only got an output in one spot and it was 12v.
It has had aluminum flooring added and the wiring runs through pvc pipe in non-accessible locations, except in couple of spots. There is a 4 switch panel that controls lighting, but the trolling motor doesn't seem to be wired through it and I don't see any fuses. Switches control lighting and bilge. TM works no matter what.
Is there a simple way to test and troubleshoot connections at the batteries without burning anything up? If not, it may be easier to start from scratch and rewire the trolling motor.
