Hello. Looking for a little advice on the following:
I have an older Minnkota Auto Pilot - 36#lbs thrust.
When the motor is in the cradle and is horizontal and out of the water I can run it at max speed and it runs fine.
However, when vertical and being used in the water it "hiccups" - the power goes in and out and I cannot bring it past 40% of max speed w/o it working. This weekend it was very fussy and sometimes simply would not work.
The battery is new and fully charged so that is not it. Is it the motor's internal gizmos that are not working?
Connection to the battery? Point where the plug goes in, etc??
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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Doonbuggy
Hello. Looking for a little advice on the following:
I have an older Minnkota Auto Pilot - 36#lbs thrust.
When the motor is in the cradle and is horizontal and out of the water I can run it at max speed and it runs fine.
However, when vertical and being used in the water it "hiccups" - the power goes in and out and I cannot bring it past 40% of max speed w/o it working. This weekend it was very fussy and sometimes simply would not work.
The battery is new and fully charged so that is not it. Is it the motor's internal gizmos that are not working?
Connection to the battery? Point where the plug goes in, etc??
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
DB
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