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Holy Grail of Trolling Motor Plugs
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<blockquote data-quote="skipper123" data-source="post: 432311" data-attributes="member: 6070"><p>Now your talking, that flat plug is what I use never even warms up. I melted all the plugs made for trolling motors as well as the big foot switches two a year. And yea I know wire sizing and over size everything. If you want to see what she will do troll upstream in the Savanna river current dragging large striper lures for about six hours on high speed with a 12 volt 55lb motor. That will give the electrical system for the trolly motor a serious test. The weak link will fail or melt. Mine was the plug and big foot switch every time. #6 copper wire straight off the battery with electrical lugs would carry the load and not heat up but the plug could not handle it. Finally took out the plug and switch and straight wired it with the 60 amp cir cute breaker at the battery. Problem solved never had trouble after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skipper123, post: 432311, member: 6070"] Now your talking, that flat plug is what I use never even warms up. I melted all the plugs made for trolling motors as well as the big foot switches two a year. And yea I know wire sizing and over size everything. If you want to see what she will do troll upstream in the Savanna river current dragging large striper lures for about six hours on high speed with a 12 volt 55lb motor. That will give the electrical system for the trolly motor a serious test. The weak link will fail or melt. Mine was the plug and big foot switch every time. #6 copper wire straight off the battery with electrical lugs would carry the load and not heat up but the plug could not handle it. Finally took out the plug and switch and straight wired it with the 60 amp cir cute breaker at the battery. Problem solved never had trouble after that. [/QUOTE]
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