T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Anyone know the max voltage input on a Minn Kota 12V riptide?

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] Anyone know the max voltage input on a Minn Kota 12V riptide?

Tech support at Minn Kota was useless for me too. 36 volts will definitely burn up a 24 volt Riptide. Been there done that. Very expensive experiment but speed went up by approx 50 % for about 15 minutes, then burnout.
Motor-Guide 36 volt gave more power but less speed and was far easier to wire up.
Dave

From: John Raynes <johncraynes@gmail.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 2:49:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Anyone know the max voltage input on a Minn Kota 12V riptide?

Keep in mind voltage will give you speed and amps will give you power.

JCR

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Roland <lightdoesnotage@ yahoo.com> wrote:

I have a Minn Kota 12V 55 pound thrust riptide saltwater trolling motor and would like to know what is the maximum voltage it can handle without blowing the digital maximizer pwm electronics? I can assume it is ok to hook it up to a deep cycle which is charged by an alternator, so it can probably handle 13.5 to 14V but what I would like is to hook it up to a 10p4s LiMn (Lithium Manganeese) battery back which would output about 16.4 volts fully charged and cut off at 2.5 volts per cell or 10 volts. I don't know if the 12V Minn Kota would smoke at 16.4 volts or just run happily. With the slight drop in the cable and the internal resistance of the LiMn, it would probably be more like 15.5 volts when the Minn Kota was pulling 50 amps.

Anyone? Tech support at Minn Kota was beyond useless.

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