I need some advice and ideas for cable routing and connecting/disconnecting.
I have a Mercury 9.9 four stroke and just installed a Trollmaster Pro2. It installed easily (I had to tweak the rod slightly), and have dry tested it - everything works as it should moving the throttle, full speed, back to idle, etc.
Now I'm wondering about cable routing. The control unit has two cables coming out of it - the gray, sheathed cable that runs to the engine, and a black/red double wire for power and ground. The red/black wires I have going directly to the battery for now, which is directly under the kicker, so it's convenient.
How are people routing the cables out of the cowling? The gray sheathed cable goes to the engine and has a quick connect with the servo motor's wires. The only way I can see is just to come out of the cowling and the wires getting squished and worn by the cowling when it is latched down. I don't know if it's better to have that pressure and wear on the gray sheathed cable or the wires coming from the servo motor. Maybe there's a better solution that someone smarter than me had thought of.
Second - how about disconnecting? Is there a way to simply disconnect the cable at the control unit? Otherwise, I'd like to install a weatherproof disconnect somewhere near the engine for the gray cable, and somewhere near the battery for the power wires. My kicker is one I remove and replace every time I move it so I need some sort of easy and quick way of disconnecting.
Finally, just a question - it seems that a lot of images and videos I see of the Trollmaster units show only the gray cable coming out of the control box, not the red/black power wires. What's up with that? I plan to get a tidy cable loom to house both wires so that I can walk from the front of my boat to the back without a bunch of wires getting caught on stuff.
I have a Mercury 9.9 four stroke and just installed a Trollmaster Pro2. It installed easily (I had to tweak the rod slightly), and have dry tested it - everything works as it should moving the throttle, full speed, back to idle, etc.
Now I'm wondering about cable routing. The control unit has two cables coming out of it - the gray, sheathed cable that runs to the engine, and a black/red double wire for power and ground. The red/black wires I have going directly to the battery for now, which is directly under the kicker, so it's convenient.
How are people routing the cables out of the cowling? The gray sheathed cable goes to the engine and has a quick connect with the servo motor's wires. The only way I can see is just to come out of the cowling and the wires getting squished and worn by the cowling when it is latched down. I don't know if it's better to have that pressure and wear on the gray sheathed cable or the wires coming from the servo motor. Maybe there's a better solution that someone smarter than me had thought of.
Second - how about disconnecting? Is there a way to simply disconnect the cable at the control unit? Otherwise, I'd like to install a weatherproof disconnect somewhere near the engine for the gray cable, and somewhere near the battery for the power wires. My kicker is one I remove and replace every time I move it so I need some sort of easy and quick way of disconnecting.
Finally, just a question - it seems that a lot of images and videos I see of the Trollmaster units show only the gray cable coming out of the control box, not the red/black power wires. What's up with that? I plan to get a tidy cable loom to house both wires so that I can walk from the front of my boat to the back without a bunch of wires getting caught on stuff.