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My fishing buddy and I have been talking about a way to convert his cable operated trolling motor to work with a 12 volt motor to control direction. We are thinking about using a remote controlled reversible motor and mounting it under the deck with the shaft sticking thru the deck with a horizontal tee bar for each cable to fasten to. Any ideas ?
Buy a Terrova and be done, there's no sense trying to reinvent the wheel.:dono
I have a Terrova with IPilot on my boat. We are just thinking "outside the box".
It could be done. Lot of calculations of motor speed and gear ratios for pulley size( length of arms if rigging a T for push/ pull) Engineering mounts and wiring, stop switches so it doesn't rotate to far. I don't know how to search it out but someone on here was building something similar to operate foot pedal a couple of years ago.
Wouldn't it be easier to rig something to work the foot pedal???
Now you are getting into Cane Pole's field of expertise.
This could easily be rigged with an electric worm drive out of an electric seat mechanism from a vehicle...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
Just need to figure out the 12v remote control with dual direction activation...
Rickie
Or spend less and buy a new trolling motor.
Blacklandlure did something similar awhile ago. Out there somewhere is some pics of his drive system which consisted of a drive motor with some kind of disk and friction linkage. Here is a post that he put up on the control part of the unit. Some smart peoples out there...
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fishi...ns-ipilot.html
New Terrova I pilot 101 is 2 grand, mite be cheaper to rig the cable drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd
Dang son, they expensive but not quite that bad. 1500 can get one to your door.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
They done come down, heck throw that cable drive away and get 2!!!,:D
I have a Max 70 Minn Kota cable and made it where I can steer it from back of boat,I have a 12 volts motor that I put a switch on to reverse current. I use a threaded rod that turns, it attach to pedal in 30 second,all I have to do is push switch up and it goes one way and push down and it goes the other way and when you take finger or foot off switch the switch goes back to no current so it stays where you stop it because it is geared reduce motor. I put it on here about a year or more ago. And for me IMO I would not trade my Max 70 for 2 Terrova,will not stay over top of brush good enough for me. I rarely use this guiding system because I rarely troll,the main draw back to my method is cannot change speed unless I go to front and turn speed control,of course if I was to use it regular I would rig something to change speed . Now Tom could take my gear motor and make it remote
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WhT fc motor do you have now? What boat? Need the 101?
Gene...can you repost the pix...??Quote:
Originally Posted by genec
Rickie
Rickie ,here are some pic of my set up,one is a pic off the TM and the others are on TM .If you look close you can see the plug that goes into cigarette lighter plug ,then wire coming off of it has on off on switch,the gear motor has a threaded rod vertical that turns and drive the part up and then turns the opposite way and pull pedal back down,sound hard but it runs easy,to take it off only takes 2 seconds
What's the motor from...??
Auto electric window...??
Rickie
Rickie the motor is from one of my auto bouy winders,but you made a good guess because the first buoy winder I made was from a car windshield motor before I ordered some motors
Cewlbeanz....Quote:
Originally Posted by genec
Now following with the OP...
We have ideas for mechanical control of the cable steer foot pedal....
Who has ideas to make this 12v motor controlled by remote....??
Rickie
Servo motor from a cheap ROC car the steering servo would be perfect and you would have a remote.
Would this work 12v...??Quote:
Originally Posted by cschottfish
Rickie
Quote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
Logisys RM09 12VDC Remote Relay Switch with 4 Outputs, Key Fob
This remote has 2 momentary and 2 locking outputs. You could probably search for a Keyless fob with 4 momentary outputs similar to this.
Cane pole ,we knew the Man would come on here soon with the advice.
Locking output means push button for "On" ...push button again for "Off"...(could be used for TM power "On-Off")..Quote:
Originally Posted by Cane Pole
Momentary means hold button for "On"....release button for "Off"...
So 1 of the momentary outputs could drive a gear reduction motor....turning a drive shaft....that would force the TM foot pedal 1 direction and stop the travel when the momentary button was released...
How would one get the TM foot pedal to go in the other direction...?? (a 2nd motor on the other end of the drive shaft...activated by the 2nd momentary output of the Logisys...??...)
Or is there a way to connect both momentary outputs to the same motor for bi-direction...??
Rickie
Use 2 relays. Turn one on for one direction, turn the other on for opposite direction. Simple and cheap. Search for relay a direction control circuit, if you can't find one, I will draw one up for you. Two relays will generate regenerative feedback (electrical brake), thus immediately stopping the TM. I drew a similar circuit up for Jerry Blake a couple years back. I got VA today, so I will be out of socket.
As I understand it ,you would only need the momentary buttons and one would be wired positive to negative and the other would be wired negative to positive to reverse travel,you just have to make sure you did not hit both at same time unless button will not take but one switch at a time? If that will work may could use other 2 buttons with another little motor and control speed switch.I love trying things like this in winter too hot in summer with these Harmon shots that make me have long hot flash that is worst than a woman.May try this winter unless someone see a reason that I have over look that it will not work,so you thinking minds let me know something. My problem is I rarely ever troll with all the BP and docks we have on my lake,oh well still like to try it
Cane poles idea is way better! You the man I did not know that they made something like that. Meant to post this yesterday but my battery died. Thank you for posting that information, so many things that can be used for.
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This is a relay reversing circuit using car horn type relays. cheap.
Tom...The relay (or relays I don't know)....is provided in the Logisys item you posted the link to..
Would not gene's idea work by using the 2 separate momentary outputs provided in the Logisys...??
1 output wired opposite polarity of the other (to the same motor)....and just engage 1 momentary output at a time...the TM pedal only needs to travel 1 direction at a time for steering control anyway...
Rickie
I haven't read up on this unit. If it has relay contact out, fine. If fet or transistor out,,,beware.
based on the physical size and the current specifications per channel, I would guess the output to be FETs. I would use the output of this fob to operate the relay circuit I posted earlier. Reversing motor direction is possible with fets in a full bridge or some half bridge applications.
http://www.logisyscomputer.com/driver/RM09_manual.pdf
ps
I believe what they are talking about is controlling remote relays (such as I have discussed). A relay (1) capable of switching 6a repeatedly would be physically larger than the encapsulated fob circuit.