Anybody know if....

[TAZ]

Running a 24v trolling motor on a 12v system will do any damage to the motor? The reason I ask is I just hooked up my new 24v troller this week (thanks to help from Brownsdown) but when I stopped at my buds house to check out the new carpet he put in his boat I noticed he had his two batteries wired in parallel instead of series which makes it a 12v system. :bash: Now he's worried he may have damaged the troller. He ran it this way for about 6 months. After I rewired it everything still seemed to work fine (but with more power now :SHOCKED: ) Any thoughts or suggestions?

[booktens]

I don,t know what brand of motor you have... but my motorguide has a switch to run 12 or 24 volts. Sounds like if you hooked it up and it ran with more power you will be OK.

[Oakley]

From an electrical perspective, just think of voltage like air pressure running through a windmill. By running the motor at lower voltage, you just put less pressure through it, so it runs slower. It's not good to do it for a long time but the short time he did it should be OK. What's bad is to take a motor set up for 12 volts and running it on 24. That will only work until the motor burns out which will happen quickly.

[The Whale]

You had more current running through your motor than you needed, not the required voltage, but more current. If anything, it made your motor run a bit hotter, more heat generated with more current. If she still acts fine, you've obviously not burned anything up so you should now be good to go since you've re-wired the batts into series. :)