Have a 80 lb min. Kota trolling motor. It's not doing anything. Any ideas. Seem to have checked anything.
Have a 80 lb min. Kota trolling motor. It's not doing anything. Any ideas. Seem to have checked anything.
Pull the head cover. Check the two power wires that go down to the motor with a voltmeter and see if you have power there when you step on the switch or put into constant. If you do and the motors not running then the problem is in the motor. I have had to redo the connections inside the head at the top of the shaft. They get corroded, then get hot, and have even melted the insulation on the wires there.
If there is no power at the head then the problem is in the foot control. Either the foot switch, the on/off/constant switch, or the circuit board.
Older motors use a regular push button switch for the foot control. You can jumper the wires past either switch in the foot control and see if that makes it work. Newer motors use a magnetic sensor that is wired directly to the circuit board. The sensor is unlikely to go bad. If it is not in the head or one of the switches then it has to be a bad control board.
It is just a matter of eliminating things one at a time till you find the bad part. Most of the time I have found corroded connections or corroded inside one of the switches. I have only had a bad board once and that was after an electrical storm on the lake. (That's another story entirely!)
Butch Derickson
2011 Z521 w/250 hp SHO
Traverse City, Michigan
did someone flip you main power button in the back? fuse?
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