Trolling motor plug for bow mount....

[dgjones]

Ok, I have a female plug in for my trolling motor on the bow of my boat.

It is a three prong plug.

I know where to buy one, but the guy said that I can fry the trolling motor if I don't test the holes because the plug they sell has three wires and the trolling motor itself only has two wires.

How do I splice these wires together? The plug at the store has three wires - my trolling motor has two.

I have attached a picture of the plug in on my boat for reference.

Thanks!!!!!!

 

[Johndhii]

Re: Trolling motor plug for bow mount....

You need to pull the outlet and see the colors of the wires. Should just be black to black, red to red. Your other option is to probe the socket, find out which ones are hot, which one is neutral, as long as you have one line going to the neutral, you wont burn it up

 

[dgjones]

Re: Trolling motor plug for bow mount....

Ok so how do I splice the trolling motor wires and plug wires together?? Black to black? Red to Red? and where to I tie in the ground wire?

 

[Silvertip]

Re: Trolling motor plug for bow mount....

You are making this way too difficult. The black wire from the motor gets connected to the black wire on the plug you are buying. That IS the ground. Negative and ground mean the same thing on a boat. The red wire from the troller gets connected to the red wire on the plug you are buying. The orange wire is not used. You make those connections using crimp terminals and cover them with heat shring tubing or use crimp connectors with waterproof gel in them. You should have corresponding red, orange and black wires on the receptacle in the boat. Follow the red wire back to the battery. If it is connected to the POSITIVE post on the battery that's the +12 volt connection and no changes are needed. Repeat for the black wire. If it connects to the NEGATIVE terminal on the battery that is ok as well. Plug in and go fishing. If this is NOT the way the battery wiring is, post back with what you have. The only other logical configuration would be to have the ORANGE wire connected to the POSITIVE terminal. Even if that's the case the only change you would have to make is swap the red and orange at the battery, or swap the red and orange on the plug you are buying.

 

[dgjones]

Re: Trolling motor plug for bow mount....

haha ok. thank you very much much for the info. I was overthinking it I guess.