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Help with Minn Kota Maxxum

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I just bought 2 new 12 volt batteries for the trolling motor and after I got them all hooked up the trolling motor would not work. There is power going into the foot control from the batteries. Not sure what is wrong.

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Did you check both circuit breakers?

  • Super User

You do have the toggle switch on the side set to either mom or Con right?

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1. Has this TM worked previous before you added the new batteries?

2. Are you sure the new batteries came charged?

3. Have you checked the circuit breakers on the TM, red button on the foot pedal and the breakers on your boat?

4. Did you rewire anything?

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1.  yes

2.  yes, charged them all yesterday

3.  NO, I do not know where any of those things are located

4.  yes, but just the wires attached to the deep cycles

  • Super User

I believe the Maxxums had just 2 wires coming from the pedal for 24v only.  If You're getting 24 volt's up to the pedal you've got an issue inside the foot pedal.  You can gain access to that by taking the plate off the bottom.  Once you get that off you'll need to troubleshoot from there and find out where you're losing the voltage.  Possible problems include the on/off/on momentary/continuous switch (I've had one of those go bad), the actual on/off switch on the pedal, circuit breaker or the electronics.  The easiest way is with digital voltmeter.  Put the ground wire on ground and then trace with the positive lead.  At some point you'll have voltage going into something but nothing coming out.  

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