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Location: north central wisconsin | jlong, your pedal is most likely salvagable. Could you have the knobs set incorrectly so they are not sliding over the micro switches? With it apart, press the switches and see if they 'click'. Yup, they are sealed and dust/grime are the death of them. The little fingers rub all day and the dust will wear through the plastic coating and get into the switch eventually(quicker for those like me who don't stow the pad religiously). Just picked up a Terrova for the other rig, and yes, the foot pads are different. Give me a year and i'l tell you if improved. I did order it from Chuck Brod and he told me that the micro sealed switchesd have been replaced by magnetic switches, which shouls fix the wear problem. i like the looks of my terrova pedal, but there are 3 times the switches/button/controls associated with it. So... if one thing was remedied, it seems there is 4 times the potential for new things to go wrong. That said, I am a loyal Minn Kota guy, and will continue to use and complain about them......
As a side note, one of my old motors started to turn slower when the armiturer(sp.?) or electric motor windings started to wear out and swell within the housing(could be one of your problems???). It needed a rebuild(new guts), which Chuck Brod completed and afforded me a couple more years from an otherwise dead rig.
Edited by Reef Hawg 5/31/2007 10:15 PM
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