How long are the battery wires? If I put it on the bow of my pontoon and the battery is at the stern(23') will it reach?
1479908
The answer is no. You will need a minimum of 10ga wire to run to the front for it to work right.
1479909
No the battery wires are only about 6 inches long. You will need to supply your own wire to get back to the battery. I used a 2 wire #8 stranded cable. I used bare butt splices and crimped and soldered the connection. I used heat shrink tubing on each connection and then heat shrink tubing over the full connection. Home depot or Lowes or Ace hardware will have what you need.
1479910
No they won't reach, you'll have to run at least a 10/2 wire from your stern to the anchor or put a battery on the bow of your pontoon dedicated to the anchor and give it an occasional charge.
1479911
No it will not reach 23 feet. However, you can buy some electrical wire from the hardware store and easily extend the power. Overall I love my MinnKota and it works great!
1479912
I might mention , I put my anchor at the front and I also put the up down switch on the front of my pontoon too, I am glad I did as it sometimes comes up dirty with mud, I can see it and drop/lift it a couple times until it cleans then put it all the way up into the holder. I has hung a couple times too and you can see it as you are retrieving it and stop or start it as it happens. Overall "we" love it. worth the money if it lasts.
980766
If you're talking about the antenna on the boat, it's a thin tube about 6-8 inches long. Basically a thin straw. Nothing special, just weave the wire thru it - it serves to keep the antenna wire up so that it has more range. If talking about the antenna on the controller, I think it's a standard telescoping antenna, try Radio Shack I'm guessing
2148151
I use it on my 24 foot pontoon boat and the motor head is about a foot and a half under water. I prefer to stand while fishing and use a handle extender.
1869358
You may need to purchase a bracket for a bow mount. Depending on where your battery is you may need extra wire and connectors. We got the wire, connectors and zip ties at the hardware store. Ours is bow mounted and the battery is at the transom.
1078719
i have a 26 foot boat. I installed on the transom and wound the cable under the deck to the side and then along to the control pedestal and then up to theGarmin radar/fish finder. I used about 20 feet and still had a roll of excess probably another 10 feet. Thats all I can tell you I hope it helps you.
1326505
I don't have access to my boat right now to measure it accurately, but I believe it is around three feet long. I use it on my 17' boat and it is fine for that size boat.
301233
I run mine on a 24ft pontoon and it trolls great. You shouldn't have any problem.
1641927
I don't know about the battery. I used it snorkling - used a wrist mount mostly. I did see people with the "stick" mount - like those used by snowboarders. I think that would be great, except there is no way that the floatie will get the camera and the stick back to the surface if you drop it.
1719678
I installed this in a boat but still had the same problem with the cable length. I replaced the supplied cable with a different cable and terminated the new cable to the boat battery. The boat battery has screw terminals so it made connection easy. However I just did almost the same thing in my old truck hooking up an amplifier that took #4 awg cable. I purchased a large fuse holder at Radio Shack (cost $13.99) and purchased some 40 Amp round AGC fuses at Auto Zone, and I purchased a battery connection tap (I have a side mount battery but they also make some for conventional batteries) at Auto Zone. For cable I just purchased a cheap #14 awg extension cord at Wal-mart (orange jacket with three #14 awg conductors inside). I connected all 3 conductors together to use as one positive cable and I connected all 3 conductors together to use as one negative cable. The combined ampacity of all 3 conductors tied together was more than the amp or an inverter would require.
1695432
I'm not sure. I have it on a Pelican Bass Raider 10E, and with me and my 90 pound dog, if I run it on it's highest number (5), it goes way too fast! My dog stands in the front with his face in the wind like a car window and my ponytail whips out behind me. I perfer to run it on a 3-4, which is very smooth and gets me where I want to go fast enough. I bought a Walmart deep cycle 27 battery, and keep it in the boat at all times in a MinnKota power center box. I can recharge the battery without lifting it out of the boat. And it stays dry. Hope this helps. Nancy
892385
No, the unit should be hooked to your boat battery, via the console instrument panel, or sending unit, check your boat manual for hook updirections. Mine had an older model and i just hooked the new one where the old one hooked up under instrument panel.
1679015
I use mine on a 20 ft pontoon and it works well provided you have a long enough anchor rope. If the rope is almost vertical it will not work. Someone else suggests a length of chain on the anchor and that would work as well.
81753
I can't give you the exact number on cable length, but they are not short. If your battery is going to be riding on the trailer I would go with a quailty deep cycle. Buy as much battery as you can afford. Hope that helps.
331008
We are mounting ours 25' up using a 4" od pole of 20' and ending in a 2" od pirce 5' long ,on to which the turbine mounts. We will be running the output from the charge regulator into a parallel bank of three 12v 300Ah deep cycle marine batteries, for a total of 900Ah at 12v
115588
I put my minn kota on a 25 foot pontoon boat and ran the wire all the way to the back without asking someone what wire to use and it does not work well. I am going to have to go back with 12/2 wire. there is a wire chart somewhere showing what size wire to use according to the amps and the distance. The 55 lbs thrust will be approx 55 amps.
185120
I', really sorry we have our boat covered and I can't get to measure them. I do know that we have 3 batteries and it goes to all of them.
665280
Absolutely nothing. That is if your boat has a battery in it. Great piece of equipment.