I was looking at a used minn kota 101 and hooked it up to my car battery to test it and it didn't work. I thought it should spin, not full power but should spin. Does you need the full 36 volts or is the trolling motor not working? Thanks

12 volts is probably not enough to make the control board work.  You have to remember, there's some electronics in the head of that motor that actually makes the motor operate.  You are not just feeding voltage into the motor windings.

1 hour ago, Way2slow said:

12 volts is probably not enough to make the control board work.  You have to remember, there's some electronics in the head of that motor that actually makes the motor operate.  You are not just feeding voltage into the motor windings.

It's a minn kota maxxum pro 101, so the trolling motor is probably good. The guy said he was running it on 24 volts before so should probably go back and have 2 batteries to test

I'm not real sure why you buy a monster size motor that weighs a ton and then turn around an run it on 2/3rd voltage so it's only making about half the power it should make.  I'm actually surprised if ran on two batteries, especially after they were partially discharged.

1 hour ago, Way2slow said:

I'm not real sure why you buy a monster size motor that weighs a ton and then turn around an run it on 2/3rd voltage so it's only making about half the power it should make.  I'm actually surprised if ran on two batteries, especially after they were partially discharged.

I agree this makes no sense to me trolling motors should be ran at the voltage they are maid for. You could buy a new 12v trolling motor that will work much better and be much easier on the battery. A 36v TM wants to draw 36v not 24 or 12 IMHO

8 hours ago, Way2slow said:

I'm not real sure why you buy a monster size motor that weighs a ton and then turn around an run it on 2/3rd voltage so it's only making about half the power it should make.  I'm actually surprised if ran on two batteries, especially after they were partially discharged.

 

6 hours ago, sully420 said:

I agree this makes no sense to me trolling motors should be ran at the voltage they are maid for. You could buy a new 12v trolling motor that will work much better and be much easier on the battery. A 36v TM wants to draw 36v not 24 or 12 IMHO

No,I'm going to use 36volts but wanted to test the trolling motor to see if it even works. I'm going to have him test with 36 volts before buying