BelewsBoater
Cadet
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- Jun 30, 2009
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Below is what I posted on other fishing forum. Not getting a reply day before yesterday. Figure I would get more help on here. Trying to get it fixed asap.
"The motor is Motorguide Brute 756 with 12/OFF/24 switch on foot control. The male plug is 3 wires black, red and white...four 6-gauge wires hooked up to female end (red, black, red w/blue stripes, black w/blue stripes) the wires goes all the way to the back hooked up to 2 deep cycle batteries.
When I put red and black to battery 1 & red/blue and black/blue to battery 2, it runs on 12v when the switch was set to 24V mode. Flip the switch to 12V mode, doesn't work.
So, I tried other way, plain red on pos. post on battery 1 and plain black on neg. post on battery 2...leaving both blue stripes wires unhooked..using 6 gauge jumper from neg. battery 1 to pos. battery 2, with the meter on pos. and neg. it reads above 24V while the mode is set on 24V but does not spin the prop? Then rehooked the blue stripes wires to the batteries and unhooked the plain red and black wires, with jumper cable, it works, prop spins.
I bought the boat last summer and the whole time I've been using the TM on the lake I thought it was running on 24V but it was on 12V even the mode was on 24"
The reply was....
"you don't say what plug you have. Is it a "molded" plug with the wires permantly attached and using butt splices to connect, or is it one that the wires connect to the plug with screw connections. Also, do you have breakers on the two positive wires. The red and the red/blue are positive. What gauge wires do you have. It should be written on the wires. What thrust, you said 12/24V but I didn't catch the thrust.
All these questions will help troubleshoot. The "right" hookup at your batteries is red and black on battery one and red/blue and black/blue on the battery two. Should be an internal jumper in the plug that provides a 24V jump so you don't need a jumper wire in the back. You should have a breaker on the red wire and on the red/blue wire. If one of these breakers is tripped, you wouldn't have one of the sides (12 or 24V). On a volt meter, if you read the two "outside" terminals (black and red/blue) you will get 24V. If you read black to red or black to black/blue, or black/blue to red/blue, or red/blue to red you should show 12V. The red connects to the black/blue through the plug. Hope this helps, John"
My reply.....
"6 gauge. 56# thrust.
No, just one breaker on red/blue wire.
Does it have internal jumper? I have no idea.
Breaker is on the red/blue wire not on the red one. With the "right" hook up like you said, would the red wire without breaker caused it not to work? Does it really make a difference to have one for the red wire, too?
Image attached. Any idea?
"The motor is Motorguide Brute 756 with 12/OFF/24 switch on foot control. The male plug is 3 wires black, red and white...four 6-gauge wires hooked up to female end (red, black, red w/blue stripes, black w/blue stripes) the wires goes all the way to the back hooked up to 2 deep cycle batteries.
When I put red and black to battery 1 & red/blue and black/blue to battery 2, it runs on 12v when the switch was set to 24V mode. Flip the switch to 12V mode, doesn't work.
So, I tried other way, plain red on pos. post on battery 1 and plain black on neg. post on battery 2...leaving both blue stripes wires unhooked..using 6 gauge jumper from neg. battery 1 to pos. battery 2, with the meter on pos. and neg. it reads above 24V while the mode is set on 24V but does not spin the prop? Then rehooked the blue stripes wires to the batteries and unhooked the plain red and black wires, with jumper cable, it works, prop spins.
I bought the boat last summer and the whole time I've been using the TM on the lake I thought it was running on 24V but it was on 12V even the mode was on 24"
The reply was....
"you don't say what plug you have. Is it a "molded" plug with the wires permantly attached and using butt splices to connect, or is it one that the wires connect to the plug with screw connections. Also, do you have breakers on the two positive wires. The red and the red/blue are positive. What gauge wires do you have. It should be written on the wires. What thrust, you said 12/24V but I didn't catch the thrust.
All these questions will help troubleshoot. The "right" hookup at your batteries is red and black on battery one and red/blue and black/blue on the battery two. Should be an internal jumper in the plug that provides a 24V jump so you don't need a jumper wire in the back. You should have a breaker on the red wire and on the red/blue wire. If one of these breakers is tripped, you wouldn't have one of the sides (12 or 24V). On a volt meter, if you read the two "outside" terminals (black and red/blue) you will get 24V. If you read black to red or black to black/blue, or black/blue to red/blue, or red/blue to red you should show 12V. The red connects to the black/blue through the plug. Hope this helps, John"
My reply.....
"6 gauge. 56# thrust.
No, just one breaker on red/blue wire.
Does it have internal jumper? I have no idea.
Breaker is on the red/blue wire not on the red one. With the "right" hook up like you said, would the red wire without breaker caused it not to work? Does it really make a difference to have one for the red wire, too?
Image attached. Any idea?
