So today I notice that the front trim switch (the one on the molded plastic consolette by the trolling motor) intermittently wasn't raising my big motor, would only lower it. Then the raise might come back on for a minute and then go out again. In other words, sometimes it would work and then it wouldn't.
The trim switch on the throttle and the switch on the motor all worked fine. I unscrewed the front assembly and checked the wiring to the switch. The console power switch was fine. It all looked good so I assumed the front switch was going out for the intermittent failure.
Then I noticed that the navigation light switch was "on," without lights being in the sockets. I switched the nav. switch to "off" and after that, the front trim switch retruned to behaving normally.
Anyone here know why that happened?