I have an issue with my motor. Was fishing all day everything fine. All of a sudden both my depth finders started flashing and not working. Went to start motor.....dead. Jumped battery from my trolling motor. Started right up. Cruising back to Marina, and there was a steady alarm sound. Shut it down. Went to start again and nothing, dead. Made it back on trolling motor.
Had just enough juice to raise the motor and head home. The 25 A fuse on the motor was blown and melted. I went to replace fuse and as soon as the fuse touched it blew. Disconnected battery and started checking continuity of all red wires that it could get to and other lead to ground.
One of the red wires from the fuse goes to the voltage regulator/regulator. That red wire is dead short to ground. I have no manual or schematic.
I assume my voltage regulator is bad. What do you think?
P.S. I had the regulator replaced with an up garage one due to a recall early last year. Right after that I accidentally hooked the battery backwards. That blew the same fuse? Could that have lessened the life of my regulator?
Had just enough juice to raise the motor and head home. The 25 A fuse on the motor was blown and melted. I went to replace fuse and as soon as the fuse touched it blew. Disconnected battery and started checking continuity of all red wires that it could get to and other lead to ground.
One of the red wires from the fuse goes to the voltage regulator/regulator. That red wire is dead short to ground. I have no manual or schematic.
I assume my voltage regulator is bad. What do you think?
P.S. I had the regulator replaced with an up garage one due to a recall early last year. Right after that I accidentally hooked the battery backwards. That blew the same fuse? Could that have lessened the life of my regulator?