After getting PO'd by halftime about the game Satuday, I went outside

and pulled out the old multimeter to see if I could find out why my TM just died a few weeks back. I poked through the casing of the wires and didn't get any reading at all. Thinking I may have been on the wrong wire (neg vs Pos) I tried it on the other wire. Still nothing. With that done. I went back to my cranking battery and checked it, it read about 13V. I did check one of the batteries on my 36 volt system and it appeared to be on up there Volt Wise. I was having to lean all over and under stuff to read it so I'm not sure what it was reading exactly but it was a good bit more than the 13 volts from the cranking battery. That tells me it may just be a cable or a fuse. I ain;t checked those yet. I just needed to get out the house for a couple more before I chunked my cowbell at the TV

They've started looking pitiful the past two weeks cuz. I don't see how you enjoyed the Halloween party with that AL game going on.

That's easy.....a green cup

Why check your cranking battery if your 36v motor isn't working????? Why poke through the wires when you can unplug and touch the prongs???? Green cup?

+100000000 Triton LOL I checked it to make sure my meter was working and it was easy to get to. Unplug? Dude, this is DonDon we talking about. Wire twisted together, liquid taped and the Lectrical tape. LOL It was wierd in that it just quit working. No smoke or TM acting up. Just died

Did you check the breaker/fuse also?

He was probably just checkin the multimeter to make sure it was ok. You guys are always pickin on poor DD, one of these days your gonna hurt his feelings.

Sounds like you got a blown fuse or something from battery to the Trollin Motor. DOes your boat a fuse block or box between the battery and trolling motor?????

Breaker at the battery

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Breaker at the battery

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That would be a good guess, course DD may have it HARD WIRED lol. NO protection lol.

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That would be a good guess, course DD may have it HARD WIRED lol. NO protection lol.

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Good assumption! Heard that is how he had a child.

ummmm, YEP

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That would be a good guess, course DD may have it HARD WIRED lol. NO protection lol.

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you got that right Feelay. She gave me a beautiful Grand Daughter to. I have been meaning to put an inline fuse on it, just haven't yet. I hope it's just whre it's connected. I don;t think when they did some of the rewiring they recoated the connections with liquid tape

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Good assumption! Heard that is how he had a child.

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you got that right Feelay. She gave me a beautiful Grand Daughter to. I have been meaning to put an inline fuse on it, just haven't yet. I hope it's just whre it's connected. I don;t think when they did some of the rewiring they recoated the connections with liquid tape

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connections should not be twisted together and liquid tape....they should be twisted tightly together, soldered, then liquid tape, and then heat shrink. If your running without a breaker....you putting your boat at risk.....fire hazard.

Ummm.G. you seen my boat? The whole things a fire hazard lol