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Message Subject: Minn Kota Terrova Problems | |||
Chad Cain |
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Has anyone else experienced problems with blowing circuit boards on their Terrovas? I have a 36 volt, 101 lb that I have now gone through 8 circuit boards in only a year of use. When I bought the thing brand new from Reeds Sporting Goods it had a bad board in it right out of the box. | |||
whynot |
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Posts: 897 | Have you talked to Minn Kota? Taken it in to be looked at by one of their service techs? I think this is the first problem I've heard about with the Terrovas, guessing you have a bad motor OR it's not installed properly. | ||
Almost-B-Good |
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Posts: 433 Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Working with circuit boards and DC motors a lot, it sounds to me like one of two things. Either there is a serious flaw in the circuit boards, which is pretty remote, unless maybe they had a bad shipment of parts, or probably more likely it's a bad motor. Without hearing the symptoms of how the unit failed it's tough to speculate. If there were shorted windings in the motor or maybe a flooded motor housing it might draw excessive amps for not nearly the output you'd expect causing the circuitboard to overheat and fry. But that's just a guess, nothing for certain. I'd have someone check out the motor before blaming the circuit boards. Let us know what you find out. | ||
Chad Cain |
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Pretty sure I just have a lemon. The service techs are the ones that are replacing the blown circuit boards. Gonna contact Minn Kota with all of my warranty repair #'s and see if they will just replace the motor. Just wanted to see if anyone else has had problems with 36volt Terrovas. | |||
Muskyfvr54 |
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Posts: 30 Location: Going Fishing | My 101 motor was drawing excessive amps, and fried my I-pilot. They replaced the motor and the I-pilot. Good customer service. | ||
Musky53 |
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Posts: 255 | I kept tripping my inline circuit breaker and it was too hot to even touch. From what I was told the gauge wire used on the Minn Kotas using the Ipilot is too low. I am in the process of rewiring mine in 6 AWG. Minn Kota says that will fix it. Hope this helps. Tom | ||
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