Advice for mounting puck kit to trolling motor.

[loebs93]

We recently bought a Minnkota Power Drive trolling motor for our boat. Today I bought the puck style transducer kit to connect my Vexilar to the motor. I understand you want to be careful when running the wire up the shaft. Just looking for what you guys did for this situation.

Also, do you guys run the flasher off the battery it came with?

Any other tips you would like to share with this setup would be appreciated. I'm going home this weekend to hook it up and give a try.

[PT73]

The cable from the transducer is taped to the power head(blade portion) with enough slack to handle the rotation, then run the wire through the coiled power wire. To finish, the transducer wire is then taped to the top portion of the motor just above the shaft.

[cybermuskie]

Cable ties also work for the shaft of the trolling motor. Just make sure you leave room for the motor to go in and out without binding. Also as far as the battery...I just tapped into my trolling motor battery, and put a fuse in-line. I used johnny ray's wire connectors. I have the vex like you. Good luck!

[Dave]

loebs,

Here's a discussion thread for mounting a Marcum puck transducer on a trolling motor. The basic steps are the same for a Vex puck. One thing I wouldn't do is run the transducer cable into the trolling motor's coiled cable when you route the cable up to the top of the trolling motor. I tried that before and the deployment of the trolling motor was always a problem with the cable being caught up inside the coiled cord. When routing the cable up, however, I do route it through the front "handle" of the trolling motor; the handle you use to lift the motor out of the water. Leave just enough slack in the cable to glide through that handle when raising or lowering the motor.

After the transducer cable is routed and secured, with tape or a tie-wrap, to the top of the trolling motor shaft, that is when I route the cable back down inside of the motor's coiled cable, on its way back down to the bow of the boat.

Trolling Motor Transducer Install

[marine_man]

Here's a link to a how to right of vexilar's HSOforum:

http://www.vexilar.com/help/tips/tip008.html

marine_man

[Juan Grande]

Dave,

Thanks for the great documentation on the LX3 puck installation. Where can I get that gimbal mount? I have the soft pack for ice fishing, but want to mount my LX2 on the boat. I checked Marcum's HSOforum, but didn't see it on there.

John

[loebs93]

Thaks for all the advice guys. I knew it was easy but just wanted to see what you did with yours.

[Dave]

John, you're very welcome. You can get a gimbal from a Marcum dealer I would guess. Give Marcum a call or send them an email. A correct answer from them is better than a guess from me

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