The chances of you being stuck on the water with a broken cable are next to nil. The new design virtually eliminates broken steering cables, making them a thing of the past. Minn Kota redesigned their steering systems several years ago. This makes the Minn Kota a winner without ever comparing any of the other features. So there are no more bent shafts and no more damaged mounting brackets. This means that you can hit an underwater object and the shaft will actually flex and snap right back to pin-straight when the pressure is removed. The shaft of the is also leaps and bounds ahead of Motorguide in the fact that it’s made of a composite material that will flex when put under stress. The Minn Kota bracket is designed to break away in the event that the motor hits a stump, rock or other object, and then pop right back into place when the stress is taken off. They also use a different style mounting bracket to attach the motor to the bow of the boat.
They run smoother and create less vibration. So now you know that I prefer Minn Kota trolling motors over the Motorguides, let me tell you a little bit more about why.įirst off, any Minn Kota motors that I have had have been much quieter than the Motorguides. When that day came, I was a bass fisherman with a big smile on my face! So I made due with the Motorguide for a few years, knowing that I would eventually replace it with a Minn Kota. This made the Motorguide very fragile because if I hit any underwater obstructions with it, there was a good chance that the shaft would bend and stay that way, rendering the motor useless. The worst feature of the motor was the shaft. Having to deal with only 5 speeds was a real pain, but I dealt with. It was the way to go, in my opinion, when it comes to speed control. I was used to having variable speeds on my trolling motor. To begin with, the motor wasn’t variable speed. The Motorguide was still working, but I wasn’t the happiest camper in the park. On top of that, I had just laid out some serious cash for the boat, so the last thing I wanted to do was spend more money to buy another trolling motor.įast forward a couple of years. I wasn’t crazy about that fact, since I had always used Minn Kota Trolling Motors, but I wanted to give it a fair shot and see how it would perform and how durable it would be. The Motorguide motor came pre-installed, brand new, on a new boat that I had bought. I’ve owned a few different boats during the past 25 years and I’ve used both major brands of trolling motors…Minn Kota and Motorguide. I don’t want to get on the water and find that the motor doesn’t work, or that it works for half the day and then quits on me. I want an electric motor that will work every time I need it to… period. When it comes to my trolling motor, I don’t compromise. Time spent on the water with so many different pieces of equipment means getting to see how they perform, day in and day out, in real-life situations. I have been for over twenty years.ĭuring those twenty-plus years, I’ve learned a thing or two about a large variety of bass fishing gear, including trolling motors. You need one of each except for the AA batteries (N107-ND), which you would need 3.I’m a die-hard bass fisherman. You can copy and paste them into the search engine on the Digikey web site. These are the part numbers for the above table, the lab on Motor Voltage and Current Measurement. These parts may be purchased off the Digikey web site, Or, you may obtain the specs from the site, and purchase them elsewhere. Note that if you have already purchased the PSOC 5LP PROTOTYPING KIT, you do not need to buy it again. You will need to buy the following components to do the two course projects based on the videos in this module. Ĝreate hardware and firmware to process motor feedback data to a microprocessor for further evaluation.Ědd a motor and motor control circuit into a microprocessor based development kit.Implement the motor and accompanying rotary sensor into a motor control circuit in both hardware and software.Integrate the motor to a machine, based on analysis of motor equations for voltage, current, torque and speed.
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Our first course gives you a tutorial on how to use the hardware and software development kit we have chosen for the lab exercises. To get the most out of this course, you should first take our first course entitled Sensors and Sensor Circuits. This is our second course in our specialization on Embedding Sensor and Motors. This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5341, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
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