My friend recently loaned me his used/beat up 50AT. It sat for about a year. Then we put it on my boat. Everything was fine until last night.
I had it on 5 which is the highest setting and it was moving along, then nothing. It cut out. I checked the connections on the battery. They are fine and new as they are one week old.
It rested for a min then worked again, but this time I had it on a lower setting (2) then bumped it up to 5 again and it cut out.
Then it worked, then it didn't and it worked and it didn't.
I guess it could still be other connectors and I will check on that. But my Q is, would a trolling motor that's going on a fritz act like this or just stop working?
Remember this is old 3-4 yrs and has been used and abused.
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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Hello,
My friend recently loaned me his used/beat up 50AT. It sat for about a year. Then we put it on my boat. Everything was fine until last night.
I had it on 5 which is the highest setting and it was moving along, then nothing. It cut out. I checked the connections on the battery. They are fine and new as they are one week old.
It rested for a min then worked again, but this time I had it on a lower setting (2) then bumped it up to 5 again and it cut out.
Then it worked, then it didn't and it worked and it didn't.
I guess it could still be other connectors and I will check on that. But my Q is, would a trolling motor that's going on a fritz act like this or just stop working?
Remember this is old 3-4 yrs and has been used and abused.
Thanks for any replies!!
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