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I didn't get a total charge on the batteries last nite and went cranking this morning and 3 hrs. of trolling cranks the trolling motor would beep several times and decrease the speed and shut off completely. Then I would hit the hand held and increase the speed to 1.7 mph and it would beep and decrease the speed again. I hope your going to tell me that the MK V2 12 volt trolling motor will do this on weak batteries. Right?
Ipilot or copilot? 4 beeps is power up.
There is a beep chart in your manual.
Co pilot and with each beep it would make it would power down. And yes, It would beep four times do shut off. I would power up and click the hand held 4-5 times with it powering up and them unite I stopped, it would start on its own, powering down with each beep it made till it was off and prop wasn't moving. I could still steer with hand held. I am wondering if one of the rubber buttons on the handheld might have been stuck down??? Will check it out.
If one button is stuck, the others will not work. You can check this.
Does low batteries have anything to do with this maybe?
Probably low voltage. I wouldn't expect a 12 volt v2 to get more than 3 hours at 1.7 mph. Unless you have a very good group 31. Especially, if you are using the ipilot or copilot too.
Using co pilot and 2 batteries in series and have trolled max 7.5 hrs so far with new MK and still plenty of power left over, but didn't get a full charge on them over nite and grasping at straws as to why trolling motor would take over while on lake and power down and stop blade turning. Sometimes I would power up to the third setting on speed and when I did, as soon as it started moving forward, it would power down on its own and beep each time like I was pushing the hand held and it,would beep with each power down setting till stopping. Going to lake and get wet in rain storms this morning and run heck out of it with fully charged batteries and see if it does it again.
I've got one in the shed that was doing the same thing. It had gotten water in the foot and was drawing the battery down. I had the boat for sale and just bought a new motor and stored that one.
My thinking is the batteries finally wearing out as I had a full charge on them with a new on board 20 amp charger that works like a charm..and went fishing today. Not a thing out of that motor and the batteries were just about depleted after 5 hrs of hard cranking with bandits. I am getting 2 new ones asap. Motor ran fine so until it happens again,,I have no idea other than batteries finally giving out. thanks for all the replys and if it happens again will post.
What size deep cycle batterys are they ?.....how old ?
Sears die hard series 31 silver platinum so and I hate to say this is the 7th yr so been waiting on them to die! I can normally get 8-10 hrs out of them easy with power left over,, but past couple of months been long lining about 6.5 hrs and now cranking bandits and today they were about run down after 5 hrs so time for me to get some new batteries.
Maybe I missed it, but what is the trust on your trolling motor? I'm considering stepping up to a bigger trolling motor. I need a to replace my current unit when I get a new bow sonar unit and thought about going to 24v, or at least 2 batteries for a 12v system. Right now I run a single battery for my 12v 55pd trolling motor, group 31 battery.
Mine is 55 lb thrust of which is fine for a 1648 g 3 Jon boat and if I were you go bigger thrust. You get in a 2 ft wave in the wind of 15-20 mph and I will slow down from about 2.7 mph which is max speed to about 1.7 but the Jon will also catch a lot of wind as light as it is compared to heavier glass boat. Still, if I were in a glass boat, go heavier thrust.
I have a 16' Deep-V and pretty much maintain the same speed. 2.5mph. 2' waves aren't an issue, maybe 4 footers will be?Quote:
Originally Posted by cevans
No, I know you won't have a problem when going into the waves with a deep V. I haven't had any problems in 4' and only when you add a wind of 15-20 constant blowing will you notice a decrease and that is only natural. How often will we fish in a wind like that? I fire the big motor up and motor to wherever and go with the wind most of the time and the waves as fish will feed into the waves. I really like the co pilot. Trolling motor is hooked up to 2 series 31 batteries and I have tons of battery power left after 8 hrs of trolling now.
A 55 should get somewhere around 4 hours at max power per battery. I don't reccomend running any motor all day over 80% power.