Need Help ASAP, trolling motor battiers

[CoBassin]

Hey everyone, I tried hooking my battiers up in my 97 champ 191 elite for the trolling motor and if i hook them up like it says in the manual I get no power to the trolling motor, If I add a jumper wire I get sparks flying every were ,Please tell me what im doing wrong I was going to take it fishing today and cant go till I get this problem fixed
Thanks guys/gals

[bassin butch]

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[blake711]

what trolling motor do you have? is its 24v or 12/24?

How many cables in your battery compartment? 2 with a jumper or 4 wires?

[CoBassin]

i have a 24 volt 2 pos wires and 2 negitive cables and a jumper wire, im so confused

[btsmbass]

Take the positive from the motor put it on positive of the #1 bat.
Take the jumper from the neg of #1 bat and put it on the pos of #2 bat
take the negative from the motor to the negative of the #2 bat

For a 24v system you only need 3 cables. The other cables are probably for the on board charger.

[Steve 187]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by btsmbass &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Take the positive from the motor put it on positive of the #1 bat.
Take the jumper from the neg of #1 bat and put it on the pos of #2 bat
take the negative from the motor to the negative of the #2 bat

For a 24v system you only need 3 cables. The other cables are probably for the on board charger.</td></tr></table>

That is how mine is also.