Electric trolling motor lost some forward gears ?

[splashhopper]

I had a bit of a surprise with my trolling motor last night.

 

One of the terminal clips had come off on Friday and I re-attached it.

( the wire in to the clip)

 

Last night the motor was side mounted on my canoe and I used it for the first time since re-attaching the wire.

 

To my surprise I now only have two forward gears,4th and fifth.

( used to have five)

I still have the two speeds for reverse though.

 

Those are the fastest gears and really move the canoe along way too fast for closing in on trees and points etc.

 

Has anyone else had this happen out of the blue?

 

And what did you do to fix it?

 

Thanks

 

Splashhopper

[splashhopper]

something weird is going on .

 

Now I have all the gears again.

 

Is it possible that if I crossed the wires last night that this could have happened?

 

I ask this because today I realized that, last night, I was turning the throttle the opposite way of what I usually do to make it go forward and reverse?

Edited July 4, 2010 by splashhopper

[Terry]

yeah that is what happened

you had the wires crossed

 

if you had a more sophisticated motor, it would have burnt out the board

[splashhopper]

yeah that is what happened

you had the wires crossed

 

if you had a more sophisticated motor, it would have burnt out the board

 

Red-necks like me like our motors dumb too

[Terry]

don't say that

 

I have done it a few times myself