I recently purchased a 1994 Stratos 201Pro which had an Evinrude 24v trolling motor. It has a switch tochange from 12v to 24v, it was very old hardly moved the boat evenwhen I switched to 24 volt. I figured it was a goner so I purchased anew Minn Kota Fortex 80lbs 24 volt. I installed it on the boat andput the plug from the Evinrude on it. The Evinrude had 3 wires, redblack and white. The Minn Kota has 2 wires red and black. I made noteof the wire orientation so hooked up the Minn Kota red where 24v wasand black where - was and white was left blank.
The Minn Kota is running slow at fullspeed. So I checked the amount of volts at the plug-in. It was only12 volts. So I looked to see how the 2 trolling motor batteries werehooked up. I discovered they were not in series but had 2 red wiresand 2 black wires running up to the plug each battery having a redand a black
Each wire was labeled, #1 pos #2 pos #1neg #2 neg. At the receptacle there were 2 pos wires hooked up toit and 1 neg along with a small red wire coming off the receptaclegoing to 3 red wires. Also one of the neg cables is not hooked up tothe receptacle but taped off with 3 black wires hooked to it. I haveincluded photos to see if anybody knows how I can hook this up andwhy was it hooked up this way.
I think I need to find out what the 3wires run, unhook them and hook the one negative backup to thereceptacle. Then the new Minn Kota will run on 24v.
Any help would be appreciated.
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